Syntax and Grammar

Letters to the Editor are almost always edited slightly for style, grammar, and syntax, and occasionally for length. Many editors will send an edited letter back to the writer for approval others will not. 

The author has tried to include as many typical experimental data as possible in the manuscript, thereby complementing the discussion written in his limited command of English (which is desperately remote in grammar and syntax from his mother language). Because they have been chosen largely on his preference and prejudice, someone may find some of them atypical or irrelevant. The references collected at the end of each chapter are neither extensive nor complete and essentially limited to those published by the end of 1988. Many of them have been chosen from the author s own library and collections. 

A template could also introduce customized textual and graphical syntax for the application of that template we do not generalize to such visual grammars in this book. 

Simmons ES. The Grammar of Markush Structure Searching Vocabulary Versus Syntax. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1991 31(l) 45-53. A discussion of the nature of Markush structures and the approaches to searching for them in available databases. 

For each library a syntax description of the data must be supplied. This syntax description must describe the data in the database and takes the form of a set of rules, also called a grammar. This list of rules is written in the SRS programming language ICARUS. The rules in this case provide the syntax part of the ICARUS language (the other part being Meta Definition) and are called productions. Productions are used to extract pieces of text from a database entry, tokens which are written to token tables. It is the data which is in these token tables that is indexed and used when querying the database, or extracting parts of the database for display. 

Lipreading is the most natural form of auditory substitution, requiringno instrumentation and no training on the part of the speaker. However, only about one-third to one-half of the 36 or so phonemes (primary sounds of human speech) can be reliably discriminated by this method. The result is that 30% to 50% of the words used in conversational English look just hfce, or very similar to, other words (homophenes) [Becker, 1972]. Therefore, word pairs such asburied/marriedmustbe discriminated by grammar, syntax, and context. 

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