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grammar

gram·mar
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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [gram-er]
    • /ˈgræm ər/
    • /ˈɡræmə(r)/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [gram-er]
    • /ˈgræm ər/

Definitions of grammar word

  • noun grammar the study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax. 1
  • noun grammar these features or constructions themselves: English grammar. 1
  • noun grammar an account of these features; a set of rules accounting for these constructions: a grammar of English. 1
  • noun grammar Generative Grammar. a device, as a body of rules, whose output is all of the sentences that are permissible in a given language, while excluding all those that are not permissible. 1
  • noun grammar prescriptive grammar. 1
  • noun grammar knowledge or usage of the preferred or prescribed forms in speaking or writing: She said his grammar was terrible. 1
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Origin of grammar

First appearance:

before 1325
One of the 16% oldest English words
1325-75; Middle English gramery < Old French gramaire < Latin gramatica < Greek grammatikḕ (téchnē) grammatical (art); see -ar2

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Parts of speech for Grammar

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Grammar

grammar popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for grammar

noun grammar

  • alphabet — An alphabet is a set of letters usually presented in a fixed order which is used for writing the words of a particular language or group of languages.
  • syntax — Linguistics. the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words. the rules or patterns so studied: English syntax. a presentation of these: a syntax of English. an instance of these: the syntax of a sentence.
  • stratification — the act or an instance of stratifying.
  • structure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
  • linguistics — the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
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Related words

  • transformational-generative grammar

    a grammar that combines the principles of generative grammar and transformational grammar.

  • transformational grammar

    a system of grammatical analysis, especially a form of generative grammar, that posits the existence of deep structure and surface structure, using a set of transformational rules to derive surface structure forms from deep structure; a grammar that uses transformations to express the relations between equivalent structures.

  • autonomous syntax

    an approach of generative grammar in which the syntactic component of a grammar is viewed as existing or operating independently of the semantic component and abstract syntactic representation is not equivalent to semantic representation.

  • case grammar

    a system of grammatical description based on the functional relations that noun groups have to the main verb of a sentence

  • categorial grammar

    a theory that characterizes syntactic categories in terms of functions between classes of expressions. The basic classes are names (N) and sentences (S). Intransitive verbs are symbols for functions which take a name and yield a sentence (written S/N), adverbs form compound verbs from verbs (for example, run fast) and so are (S/N)/(S/N), etc

  • descriptive grammar

    an approach to grammar that is concerned with reporting the usage of native speakers without reference to proposed norms of correctness or advocacy of rules based on such norms.
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