grammar
Definitions
- A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
- grammar (rules for speaking and writing a language)
- The study of such a system.
- the aspect of grammar that deals with inflections and word order.
- feminine singular of gramático
- Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
- a lack of grammatical sequence or coherence, as “He ate cereal, fruit, and went to the store.” Also anacoluthia. — anacoluthic, adj.
- A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.
- a repetition of words to resume the sense after a long parenthetical digression. See also rhetoric and rhetorical devices.
- A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
- the substitution of one grammatical case for another, e.g., use of the nominative where the vocative would normally occur. — antiptotic, adj.
- A formal system defining a formal language.
- the clause that expresses the consequence in a conditional sentence. Cf. protasis.
- The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
- Medicine. a neurological defect resulting in an inability to use words in grammatical sequence.
- A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.
- a principle or a point of grammar.
- Ellipsis of grammar school.
- excessively pedantic behavior about grammatical standards and principles. — grammatist, n.
- A set of component patterns, along with the rules for connecting them, which can be combined to form more complex patterns such as large still lifes, oscillators, and spaceships.
- arrangement of thoughts by subordination in grammatical construction. Cf. parataxis. — hypotactic, adj.
- Rare. a word or phrase that violates the rules of grammar. — ingrammatically, adj.
Equivalents
Examples
“Because real lexicons are big and complex, from a software engineering perspective it is best to write⟳ simple grammars that have⟳ a simple, well-defined way, of pulling out the information they need⟳ from vast lexicons. That is, grammars should be thought of as separate⟳ entities which can access the information contained in lexicons. We can then use⟳ specialised mechanisms for efficiently storing the lexicon and retrieving data from it.”
“We must learn⟳ a new grammar of power in a world that is made up more of the common good – or the common bad – than of self-interest or national interest⟳.”
“a grammar of geography”
“To turn⟳ this sort⟳ of mixture of a gossip and a gospel into anything like⟳ a grammar of Distributism has been quite impossible.”
“He’s the old man’s only son. Some baby! Yep, right behind ya. Nope, he donno me. I was in Grammar when he was in High.”
“Hickerson has a computer program⟳ which found a spaceship with speed⟳ c/3. In fact a whole grammar of them.”
“Within a few hours of finding the first period 2 ship, Dean had discovered a grammar for constructing an infinite number⟳ of different short, wide, period 2 spaceships. A grammar is an "alphabet" of "components", along with rules for the possible sequences of connections between components. Components are simply the identifiable pieces of a ship which reappear over and over in different ships in different combinations.”
“Dean's discovery included a much more plentiful family than just the light⟳, medium, and heavy weight spaceships that have⟳ been known since the beginning, which he was able to organize into a series of tiles and a grammar for them.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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