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Grammar is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Grammar meaning

  1. A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
  2. The study of such a system.

Synonyms of Grammar

descriptive linguistics

Grammar vertaling naar Nederlands

spraakkunst grammatica spraakkunstboek

Using Grammar

  • The main meaning on this page is: A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. | A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. | The study of such a system.
  • Useful related words include: descriptive linguistics.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: spraakkunst, grammatica, spraakkunstboek.
  • In the example corpus, grammar often appears in combinations such as: grammar school, the grammar, grammar is.

Context around Grammar

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Grammar

  • In this selection, "grammar" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, english, regular, linear, school, schools and uses stand out and add context to how "grammar" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a grammar that has and about english grammar in 1983. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "grammar" sits close to words such as geographic, hypothesis and myth, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with grammar

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Constructions are catenae: Construction Grammar meets Dependency Grammar. (8 words)

Argument from grammar The argument from grammar uses traditional grammar to support substance theory. (14 words)

And that grammar could always be mechanically transformed into an equivalent (but larger) LR(1) grammar. (16 words)

In the newspaper's ranking of the best secondary and grammar schools in South East England, Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham came sixth, with a national ranking of 35, and Beaconsfield High School came seventh, with a national ranking of 37. (43 words)

A correspondent to the BBC on a programme about English grammar in 1983 remarked: One reason why the older generation feel so strongly about English grammar is that we were severely punished if we didn't obey the rules! (39 words)

An extended context-free grammar (or regular right part grammar) is one in which the right-hand side of the production rules is allowed to be a regular expression over the grammar's terminals and nonterminals. (36 words)

A correspondent to the BBC on a programme about English grammar in 1983 remarked: One reason why the older generation feel so strongly about English grammar is that we were severely punished if we didn't obey the rules! (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

Some authors call this type of grammar a right regular grammar (or right linear grammar) and the type above a strictly right regular grammar (or strictly right linear grammar).

An extended context-free grammar (or regular right part grammar) is one in which the right-hand side of the production rules is allowed to be a regular expression over the grammar's terminals and nonterminals.

Argument from grammar The argument from grammar uses traditional grammar to support substance theory.

Grammaticality: A speaker’s sayings conform to the rules of grammar This follows the definition of Grammar and Syntax, as given by Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary: : Grammar : ::1.

In order to translate one language into another, it was observed that one had to understand the grammar of both languages, including both morphology (the grammar of word forms) and syntax (the grammar of sentence structure).

Studies of grammar Fundamental categories Halliday's first major work on the subject of grammar was "Categories of the theory of grammar", published in the journal Word in 1961.

Coached by former Scotland International Tom Ryder, Director of Sport at Harrogate Grammar School, and Stuart Vincent, former Captain of Ilkley RFC, the team is made up of Harrogate Grammar School Sixth Form students.

In the newspaper's ranking of the best secondary and grammar schools in South East England, Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham came sixth, with a national ranking of 35, and Beaconsfield High School came seventh, with a national ranking of 37.

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The bus had been taking pupils to the all boys Calday Grange Grammar School and the all-girls West Kirby Grammar School when it crashed.

Recent figures have not shown that large numbers are leaving privates schools, nor are they moving to grammar schools as the number of applications to grammar schools has not increased this year.

Slough Grammar is now Upton Court Grammar School but it is still on the same site and has been extended considerably since the time when Mr Forbes attended.

A correspondent to the BBC on a programme about English grammar in 1983 remarked: One reason why the older generation feel so strongly about English grammar is that we were severely punished if we didn't obey the rules!

Adverbs as a "catch-all" category Adverbs are considered a part of speech in traditional English grammar, and are still included as a part of speech in grammar taught in schools and used in dictionaries.

A grammar that has no shift/reduce or reduce/reduce conflicts when using Follow sets is called an SLR grammar.

And that grammar could always be mechanically transformed into an equivalent (but larger) LR(1) grammar.

Another way to understand the difference in concerns between systemic functional grammar and most variants of generative grammar is through Chomsky's claim that "linguistics is a sub-branch of psychology ".

Appalled at the quality of the available English grammar books, Priestley wrote his own: The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761).

Augmented grammar Before the transitions between the different states are determined, the grammar is augmented with an extra rule : (0) S → E eof where S is a new start symbol and E the old start symbol.

Consonants Vowels Grammar main The grammar of Cornish shares with other Celtic languages a number of features which, while not unique, are unusual in an Indo-European context.

Constructions are catenae: Construction Grammar meets Dependency Grammar.

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Common combinations with grammar

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "grammar" in a sentence?
An example: "Some authors call this type of grammar a right regular grammar (or right linear grammar) and the type above a strictly right regular grammar (or strictly right linear grammar)." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "grammar" from authentic English texts.
What does "grammar" mean?
Grammar means: A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
What are synonyms of "grammar"?
Common synonyms of "grammar" include: descriptive linguistics.
What is "grammar" in Dutch?
"grammar" translates to Dutch as: spraakkunst, grammatica, spraakkunstboek.
How many example sentences with "grammar" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "grammar", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.