That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.

The rules that govern the structure of statements or instructions in a programming language or in an operating system.

the study of how sentences are formed and of the grammatical rules that govern their formation. the pattern or structure of word order in sentences, clauses, and phrases.

( Webster Dictionary) - the part of grammar dealing with the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (as phrases or clauses)

The order in which you must type a command and the elements that follow the command. Advanced Server commands have up to four elements: command name, parameters, switches, and values.

The syntax of a command is how it is written. e.g the readln command is written like so:-- readln (<string value); Back to where you were

Format for entering a given command.

The format which must be followed for the computer to recognize statements or commands.

a uniform way to write code

The way in which BASIC statements are put together.

A statement that contains programming code.