Sentence examples for tricky syntax from inspiring English sources

("The Blaze of Truth" includes footnotes that explain tricky syntax and unusual rhyme schemes).

(I know: some great poets spelled terribly; Yeats for one. But if the poet can't get their spelling right in a competition entry, it's tricky to hold out much hope for syntax, diction, imagery).

For all the discussion Facebook has prompted — over its "25 random things about me" narcissism, its mangled syntax ("Peggy is weekend"), the tricky politics of whom to friend (actual friends? strangers? "kinda knows"?) — its most profound impact may be to alter, even obliterate, conventional notions of the past, to change the way young people become adults.

While syntax — the mechanics of diction — can be made to toe the line and conform to a particular "style," seeing is trickier to control.

The inverted syntax?

"It is a syntax".

"Your syntax is shit.

Mangle his syntax?

Her syntax stays sure.

The pleasures of syntax.

"Syntax used to be vehement.