Is there any difference between syntax and grammar in English?If yes, then explain with examples.

Syntax is the scientific
study of or the academic examination of how units of language, such as morphemes and
lexemes, join together to create larger units--called phrases, clauses, and
sentences--that are acceptable in a given language or in a universal model of
language.

Grammar is a record,
either a prescriptive record or a descriptive record, of how components of syntactical
study present in a given or a universal language to produce through logical and
structural forms an acceptable effective spoken or written
communication.

Working backwards, grammar
prescribes that the English sentence "The cats meow" comprises a
determiner phrase (the cats) and a verb. Grammar also prescribes that the determiner
phrase must precede the verb (meow).

If a particular
dialect of English has the acceptable structure "Meow the cats," grammar
may describe that the sentence comprises a verb (meow) followed by a
determiner phrase (the cats). Descriptive grammar would
explain how in Xzv dialect a verb may precede a determiner
phrase.

The difference between
prescriptive grammar and descriptive grammar is that a prescriptive
grammar prescribes forms and rules to be followed to establish a standard
of a language that takes precedence over other dialects of the language, whereas a
descriptive grammar analyses and then describes the grammar
that is acceptable and practiced in a given dialect of a language. You might say one is
a rule book (prescriptive) whereas the other one is a tour guide
(descriptive).

A discussion of
syntax, either the scientific study or the academic
(student) examination, approaches the same sentence, "The cats meow," from the component
parts. Beginning with morphology, the syntax would be
analyzed as having the morpheme /s/ attached to the lexeme /cat/ to form a plural
/cats/. The syntax would further be analyzed as the lexemes
the and
cats joined in a phrase with the
determiner the as the head word,
therefore comprising a determiner phrase (the cats). The syntax would further be
analyzed as the determiner phrase joined with an action verb to form the clause
the cats meow. The syntax would
further be analyzed as the determiner phrase filling the Subject slot
and the action verb filling the Verb slot,
with a vacant Object slot, rendering it a sentence in the
SV sentence
structure.

Syntax starts at
the deepest level and analyzes component parts of a language sample.
Grammar addresses the formation of communicative groups of words,
phrases, clauses, and sentences that express intention.

By
this definition, grammar may be built upward from syntax, but syntax cannot be built
upward from grammar.