What Is Semantics And Syntax In Grammar?

[Trevorblack2014]

I want to know some examples of, semantically incorrect/correct sentences as well as Syntaxically incorrect/correct.

I am trying to figure out, what semantics and syntax are but the articles that I have found are extremely confusing.

[Jackdaw33]

Semantic refers to the meanings of words, syntax refers to how those words are put together to be meaningful.

[Trevorblack2014]

Can you guys give me some examples of Semantically incorrect and correct sentences? and the same for syntax, please

[Trevorblack2014]

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[Trevorblack2014]

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[Trevorblack2014]

I already know the defintion but I am better off, with examples of both semantically incorrect and correcr sentences

[fiction-factory]

Does this help
https://sites.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/all-about-linguistics/branches/semantics/what-is-semantics

[jno]

you could say "I am jealous of his wealth" is semantically incorrect; it should be "I am envious..."

[Mosaic]

This flight will be airbound momentarily - semantically incorrect as momentarily means 'for a moment'
Come here quick - syntactically incorrect, as quick is an adjective and you need the adverb, quickly.

[ichkeria]

Nothing wrong with "come here quick"
"Quick" is an adjective
Nothing wrong with "jealous of" to mean "envious of" either

The problem with giving examples of semantically incorrect examples in that you need a context to put it in: even "airborne (surely?) momentarily" is not wrong if you actually mean "only for a moment"!

An example of a syntactically incorrect sentence would be:
"After I had been to the cinema, David goes home", where it should either be
"After I have been ..."
or "... David went home"

"Syntaxically" IS wrong however: the word is "syntactically"

[ichkeria]

"quick" is an adverb also I meant (!)

[Mosaic]

Quick is an adjective

Quickly is an adverb

Time passed quickly

A quick fix was needed

Soory, there's no debate as to the current grammar. Grmmar changes over time. But not that quick(ly).

[Khandro]

His death was instant. Should be, His death was instantaneous

[Mosaic]

or he died instantly

[Khandro]

Mosaic; Yes, shorter, but somehow not quite as graphic. :0)

[jomifl]

'Graphic' is semantically incorrect Khandro, unless someone drew it or depicted it visually in some way.

[Retrochic]

Graphic has multiple meanings

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/graphic?s=t

[jomifl]

Depends which dictionary you use Retro, and how old it is :-)

[ichkeria]

"Quick is an adjective

Quickly is an adverb "

QUICK is an adverb also: as confirmed by consulting any dictionary

[Khandro]

Yes it poses a graphic image in my mind, in fact the one I see is the James Thurber cartoon of a man falling over, and the caption reads, 'He finally caught the disease that was killing the elm trees'

[Retrochic]

jomifl -what? We are speaking in the 21st Century therefore I wold assume one refers to a current edition of a dictionary for the correct meaning of a word rather than a 19th century version.

If the Oxford dictionary says this sentence is correct: "a graphic account of the riots" meaning "Giving clear and vividly explicit details" then its correct
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/graphic