This phrase is grammatically and syntactically correct, but it doesn't sound very English.
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This phrase is grammatically and syntactically correct, but it doesn't sound very English.
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The syntactically Latinate language lends the poem gravitas.
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The sentence was syntactically correct, but made no sense.
Source: wiktionary
Thus, there is a third kind of judgment, which we shall call characterization. The wa-phrase and ga-phrase serve syntactically to distinguish predicational judgment not only from nonpredicational description but also from characterizational judgment.
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