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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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syntax, syntactic, and syntactical

0My signature is ''NOTE: When you reply to my post, please look for grammatical, 01b01i00structural 02i02b00and punctuation mistakes, and please let me know of any suggestions you have. Thank you.''02br
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00Can I say it like, ''NOTE: When you reply to my post, please look for grammatical, 01b01font00syntactic/syntactical02font02b00 and punctuation mistakes, and please let me know of any suggestions you have. Thank you.''02br
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01b01i00Syntactic02i00 and 01i00syntactical02i00 are adjectives made from 01i00noun 02i00syntax. Right? Is there any difference between the meaning of syntactic and syntactical?02b0-
  

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02br 02br 00You could of course get round it by saying 01font 00'NOTE: When you reply to my post, please look for mistakes in grammar, syntax or punctuation, and let me know of any suggestions you have. '02font 00'00 0-

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  • 02br 02br 00You could of course get round it by saying 01font 00'NOTE: When you reply to my post, please look for mistakes in grammar, syntax or punctuation, and let me know of any suggestions you have.
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0 They carry identical meanings.02br
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00You could of course get round it by saying 01font00'NOTE: When you reply to my post, please look for mistakes in grammar, syntax or punctuation, and let me know of any suggestions you have. Thank you.'02font00'00 0-
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01cite10Feebs1112cite10They carry identical meanings.12br
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10You could of course get round it by saying 11font10'NOTE: When you reply to my post, please look for mistakes in grammar, syntax or punctuation, and let me know of any suggestions you have. Thank you.'12font10
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0You can, but you probably don't want us going back to the first post in the thread, but rather the most recent one. Leave it out.0-
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10You can, but you probably don't want us going back to the first post in the thread, but rather the most recent one. Leave it out.12br
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10Yes, you are right. That is misleading, therefore I should avoid it.0-
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1font00Which of the following signatures is more specific and clear in meaning?02font02br
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01font01b001:02b00 NOTE: When you reply to my post, please look for mistakes in grammar, syntax or punctuation, and let me know of any suggestions you have. Thank you.02font02br
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0It is implied that we are looking in your message. We're certainly not looking at thel school newsletter for mistakes to tell you about. 05000 So don't bother adding the extra words.010id1
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I would suggest option number one. The latter seems to suggest that the user who is replying should analyze his own post.
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Syntactical is not in Oxford dictionary; Cambridge says to "see syntactic", Merriam-Webster lists it as a variant of Syntactic.

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