Syntax

They may simply be transferring what they already know from one language to the other.

Syntax is another area where intentional, explicit instruction is especially important.

Our students need the opportunity to understand how sentence structures differ between the two languages.

For example, in English, we typically place adjectives before nouns, as in the red car, while in Spanish, many of the adjectives follow the noun, as in el carro rojo.

I was like-

Syntax, it's hard

... got it.

Syntax, I figured it out.

Thank you, Daniel.

Uh, @username11 says, "I have nothing to base this on, but I don't think the decision to have Neela's almost final episode take place three episodes from the finale had as much to do with Parminder's pregnancy as with, with wanting to give Neela her own spotlight.

We have access to the events or the histories or what have you.

Sometimes not as fully as the author might, but In swaths, right? We can get there, right? Syntax, rhetorical moves.

And we can ask, really importantly,

who wrote this? What individual? And

But I, I, I'm agreeing that in the field it doesn't seem as hot.

And do you know what? Syntax isn't even on the list, Donell.

No.

I mean, I know it's part of-

Yeah, and syntax.

Mm-hmm.

Syntax.

Yes.

Okay, now here's some more.

Syntax, you're always manglin'.

No X in espresso.

Your part of speech is danglin'.

Um, spoke in complete sentences.

Syntax was excellent.

His ideas were extraordinarily well formed.

And, uh, as I got to know him and was a volunteer in the '68 campaign, I observed him do, doing extraordinarily intellectual, uh, events.

It's not just borrowing, it's cultural translation.

Syntax-wise, there's evidence of French influence on clause structure.

For instance, the tendency to front adjectives after nouns in English, a hallmark of French grammar, shows up in phrases like, "The house big." That odd ordering feels foreign to most native speakers, but is a relic of bilingualism.

Fast-forward to the 20th century, and you see the shift toward monolingual English accelerate.