Syntax is a fundamental part of linguistics, and it focuses on:
* The rules governing word order: How words are arranged to create meaningful phrases and sentences.
* Grammatical relationships: How words connect to each other within a sentence.
* Sentence structure: Analyzing the different components of a sentence, such as subject, verb, object, and modifiers.
Syntax helps us understand how language works, how we interpret meaning from sentences, and how to generate grammatically correct sentences.