Anyone who has had to sift through large BNFs such as [0, 1] to find that the syntax error was a syntactically significant "TO" knows that this is the case. Natural language has synonyms, computer languages really should avoid synonyms and also any spurious syntactic sugar.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-altertable.html

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-commands.html