sentence structure

1. 1.

   the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

   Synonymssyntaxphrase structure

   Broaderstructure

   linguistics

Questions about sentence structure

What does sentence structure mean?

sentence structure means "the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences".

What is another word for sentence structure?

Close synonyms include syntax, phrase structure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sentence structure a common word?

sentence structure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.