General syntax error

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It can be anything, really.

The syntax of any programming language has a certain order to it and certain rules in order to make it a valid statement. If you violate the order or rules, and you end up with a problem with your statement syntax, it will throw what you see as a "syntax error"

For example, the proper syntax of a simple math equation may go like this:

1+1=2

If you incorrectly put something like this:
1+/2=2

You would end up with a syntax error.

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