[
UK
/ɡɹˈæmɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹæmɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹæmɝ/ ]
NOUN
- the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
How To Use grammar In A Sentence
- I lived only two blocks from high school and grammar school, and there were baseball diamonds and football fields.
- It wasn't bad grammar, I meant exactly what I said.
- Each major area is enclosed by a large number of isoglosses representing differences in lexis, grammar, and phonology.
- Ironically this was in a whinge about grammar schools. Times, Sunday Times
- Complain about their bad grammar or poor choice of headlines or biased editorials.
- In this article we analyze the grammar of codes of ethics as a written locutionary act, and attempt to determine their implicit illocutionary and perlocutionary values.
- He was known for his poor grammar and punctuation.
- ‘There were seven misquotes, 32 errors of fact,’ he says, overlooking his own book's refreshingly loose association with accepted English grammar and punctuation.
- Finally at half-past three I went upstairs to dress as a grammar-school arriviste. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- For Modistae such as Boethius of Dacia and Thomas of Erfurt, the proper subject of grammar is well-formed, significant speech (sermo congrue significativus), the principles of which are expressed in the modi significandi. Thomas of Erfurt