Are semantics and syntax the same?

Question

What is the difference in meaning between \'semantics\' and \'syntax\'? What are they?

Also, what\'s the difference between things like \"semantic website vs. normal we

Answer 1

"An ant ate an aunt." has a correct syntax, but will not make sense semantically. A syntax is a set of rules that can be combined to produce infinite number of gramatically valid sentences, but few, very few of which has a semantics.