Can SELECT TOP have argument?

Newbie’s question, I believe.
I wanted to make a stored procedure to returns last several rows or last several hundred rows depending on the situation, so I started writing queries in order to copy/paste them into procedure. There are two queries, first works, but
second one shows syntax error in select statement. Can anyone tell me why, and how to go around this?
SELECT TOP 5 * FROM Table1 ORDER BY ID DESC
DECLARE @Counter as int
SET @ Counter = 5
SELECT TOP @ Counter FROM Table1 ORDER BY ID DESC

This works. But I still don?t realize what was wrong with my syntax. Do those () will convert what?s inside parameter to string so parser could read it correctly? What actually is going on here?
It's just the way it is. Originally there was only SELECT TOP n, where the value after TOP had to be a constant. Then they added the ability to have expression, but then they added the parens. This is so that you can say things like:
SELECT TOP (SELECT ... FROM ...) ... FROM
if you feel like.
The old syntax is deprecated but remains for compatibility reasons.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]

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TIMESTAMP                                                      VARCHAR2(19)
STATUS                                                         VARCHAR2(7)
TEMPORARY                                                      VARCHAR2(1)
GENERATED                                                      VARCHAR2(1)
SECONDARY                                                      VARCHAR2(1)
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