§ 1
What syntax studies
Syntax is the branch of grammar that deals with how words combine into word combinations and sentences. Whereas morphology studies the single word and its forms, syntax studies the links between words and the structure of the whole utterance. Its two main units are the word combination (soʻz birikmasi) and the sentence (gap).
Word order in an Uzbek sentence is fairly stable: the predicate usually comes last, and the dependent word stands before the head (the modifier before what it modifies). Relations between words are expressed mainly by affixes, so word order serves not to distinguish roles but to give emphasis.
katta shahar (a big city) — the modifier first; Men kitob oʻqiyman (I read a book) — the predicate last