Sekirov Dictionary

grammar

UK /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/US /ˈɡɹæm.ɚ/

noun 10
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 2

noun10

A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
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(figurative) The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
- 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. — 2011
The study of such a system.
Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.
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(UK, informal) Ellipsis of grammar school.
- 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. — 1932
A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
A formal system defining a formal language.
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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.
- Hickerson has a computer program which found a spaceship with speed c/3. In fact a whole grammar of them. — 1991
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(UK, no longer used) A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.
- To turn this sort of mixture of a gossip and a gospel into anything like a grammar of Distributism has been quite impossible. — 1926

verb1

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(no longer used) To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
- She is in her Moods, and her Tenses: / I'll Grammar with you, / And make a trial how I can decline you — 1619

forms

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Phrases with grammar

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