Abstract
This study examines the syntactic features of selected christian praise and worship songs performed by two Nigerian Christian performing artists Panam Percy Paul and Osinachi Kalu. Qualitative approach was employed to identify and discuss the functions of the prevalent and significant syntactic features. The result of the analysis showed that thesyntactic features of praise and worship songs are fairly simple rather than complex. Prevalent occurrences of the simple and the imperative sentences were identified across the texts in the corpus. While the simple sentences have SVO structures which contribute to the straightforwardness of the messages of the song texts, the imperatives have their subjects elided thereby heightening the tempo of the praise. Other syntactic features identified but not prevalent are interrogative and compound sentences.
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