the present study is an experimental case study which investigates the impacts, if any, of skopos on syntactic features of the target text. two test groups each consisting of 10 ma students translated a set of sentences selected from advertising texts in the operative and informative mode. the resulting target texts were then statistically analyzed in terms of the number of words, phrases, simple and complex sentences, showing no notable differences between the renditions of the two groups. the thesis concludes that the skopos does not affect the syntactic features of the target text