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Syntactic Features of Legal Documents of Business English Abstract: It has been many years since China adopted its policy of reform and opening to the outside world. More and more people are beginning to attach importance to studying business English. The purpose of this paper is to quest for syntactic features of legal documents of business English. Key Words: Syntactic Features Legal Documents Business English Business English is an important language tool for people to pursue international business activities. With China’s successful entry into WTO (the World Trade Organization), business English is more widely used. The legal documents of business English refer to the law-oriented documents during the course of international business activities. Merchandisers or relevant translators may use them in business transactions. The legal documents use the written form to set forth the involved rights and obligations, which are stipulated in the laws. They are an indispensable part for people to carry out international business activities. Syntax refers to the rules for ordering and connecting words into sentences. It allows various possibilities to be exploited for effective linguistic communication. A systematic description of syntactic features should include: sentence types, clause types, phrase types, etc. Here, it is only necessary to mention the syntactic features of legal documents of business English. 1. Long Sentences Long sentences are common in legal, political and theoretical writing, which depends on modification for accuracy. In legal documents of business English, you can find the sentences used are long and quite often the entire document is composed in the form of a single sentence. In legal documents, long sentences are more than anywhere else and in fact, a deed is usually written in one long sentence. Long sentences are capable of expressing complex ideas with precision, because they ma