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Chapter 8 Syntax Is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, specifically word order and punctuation. The term syntax is also used to refer to the study of such principles and processes. The goal of many syntacticians is to discover the syntactic rules common to all languages. This chapter is about write correctly, goes hand in hand with the rules about how a sentence is structured and how it should be expressed with the signs intonation and points.