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gram⋅mar
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–noun <table class="luna-Ent"> <tbody><tr> <td class="dnindex">1.</td> <td>the study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax.</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table class="luna-Ent"> <tbody><tr> <td class="dnindex">2.</td> <td>these features or constructions themselves: English grammar. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table class="luna-Ent"> <tbody><tr> <td class="dnindex">3.</td> <td>an account of these features; a set of rules accounting for these constructions: a grammar of English. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table class="luna-Ent"> <tbody><tr> <td class="dnindex">4.</td> <td>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.</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table class="luna-Ent"> <tbody><tr> <td class="dnindex">5.</td> <td> prescriptive grammar. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table class="luna-Ent"> <tbody><tr> <td class="dnindex">6.</td> <td>knowledge or usage of the preferred or prescribed forms in speaking or writing: She said his grammar was terrible. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table class="luna-Ent"> <tbody><tr> <td class="dnindex">7.</td> <td>the elements of any science, art, or subject.</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table class="luna-Ent"> <tbody><tr> <td class="dnindex">8.</td> <td>a book treating such elements.</td> </tr> </tbody></table>
<hr class="ety"> Origin:
1325–75; ME gramery < OF gramaire < L gramatica < Gk grammatik http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...emacrgrave.png (téchnē) grammatical (art); see -ar <sup>2</sup> http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...una/thinsp.png
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