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Definition of grammar:
- A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.
- The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.
- The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.
- To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
- treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography.
Synonyms:
accidence, basics, modification, gender, anthology, deep structure, almanac, morphemics, bible, sentence pattern, phrase structure grammar, person, tagmeme, bestseller, language pattern, analytic grammar, generative grammar, concord, syntactic structure, inflectional grammar, authority, distributive grammar, punctuation, voice, subordination, sentence, atlas, coordination, essentials, isolating grammar, reformulate, ABC, concordance, clause, morphology, incorporating grammar, sememe, grammarian, the new grammar, PS, elements, nexus, surface structure, morphophonemics, rationalized language, number, universal grammar, sentence structure, biography, alphabet, phonemics, synthetic grammar, case, rule, tagmemics, sandhi, part of speech, autobiography, annual, mood, prescriptive, traditional grammar, fundamentals, agreement, aspect, tagmemic grammar, stratificational grammar, rudiments, blook, inflection, parse, hypercorrection, semiotics, linguistic science, grammatical, transformational grammar, morpheme, phoneme.
- grammar (part of speech: noun)
- language (part of speech: noun)
Usage examples:
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Grammar tells no one what he should wish to say.
- "The English Language", Robert Gordon Latham. -
" We have done all the lessons we could, indeed we have-" began Sylvia; " my music and our French grammar, and-" " Yes, I know," said Mary; and she paused, looking embarrassed and uncomfortable, so that Sylvia stood in suspense and wonder.
- "Countess Kate", Charlotte M. Yonge. -
Do not correct the grammar, and spoil the sense, but discern what he means when he says, 'Now, abideth faith, hope, love.
- "Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)", Alexander Maclaren.