Full-text query troubles

I’m trying to just test a query in phpmyadmin before putting into a php script but it is giving me a generic error message and not really helping me, i have tried every possible combination of quotes, still no luck.

I have created a fulltext index and it is correctly built.

the sql statement:

SELECT * MATCH(element1_en) AGAINST ('oxford') AS score FROM AATimeline_pages WHERE MATCH(element1_en) AGAINST ('oxford') ORDER BY score DESC

it’s giving me the 'ole:

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL blah blah blah…

Any ideas where i might be going wrong?