Grammar
['græmə] or ['græmɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics).
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Definition
(n.) The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.
(n.) The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.
(n.) A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.
(n.) treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography.
(v. i.) To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Accidence, science of language, laws or rules of language, theory of human speech.[2]. Propriety of speech, right use of language, art of speaking or writing correctly.[3]. Treatise on grammar, manual or handbook of grammar, grammatical text-book.
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Definition
n. the science of the right use of language: a book which teaches grammar: any elementary work.—ns. Grammā′rian one versed in or who teaches grammar; Gramm′ar-school a school in which grammar esp. Latin grammar is taught: a higher school in which Latin and Greek are taught.—adjs. Grammat′ic -al belonging to or according to the rules of grammar.—adv. Grammat′ically.—n. Grammat′icaster a piddling grammarian.—v.t. Grammat′icīse to make grammatical.—v.i. to act the grammarian.—ns. Grammat′icism a point of grammar; Gramm′atist a grammarian.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are studying grammar, denotes you are soon to make a wise choice in momentous opportunities.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man along the path by which he advances to distinction.
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Examples
- He tried to look knowing over the Latin grammar when little Rawdon showed him what part of that work he was in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My son Johnny, named so after his uncle, was at the grammar-school, and a towardly child. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Young Freeling was a gentleman, as far as grammar and eating with his fork went; and Fanny proposed our going to Covent Garden together that evening. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He never wrote to me without asking for money in his life, and all his letters are full of bad spelling, and dashes, and bad grammar. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She disliked the Grammar School already thoroughly, she wanted to be free. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- How do you think you would write or speak about anything more difficult, if you knew no more of grammar than he does? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was perfect in construction, in phraseology, in grammar, in emphasis, in pronunciation --everything. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Davy received what is usually called a liberal education, putting in nine years in the Penzance and one year in the Truro Grammar Scho ol. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Her month's notice to leave the Grammar School was in its third week. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When this was finished Arkwright went with it to Preston, and there set up his spinning-frame and began to use it in a room of the house that belonged to the Free Grammar School. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Rinaldi was sitting on the bed with a copy of Hugo's English grammar. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Winding through the hollow, he passed the Grammar School, and came to Willey Green Church. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Between a sallow dictionary and worn-out grammar would magically grow a fresh interesting new work, or a classic, mellow and sweet in its ripe age. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I tried both ways, and when it came to a sniff or utter mortification and woe, he just threw the grammar on to the floor and marched out of the room. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Is any gentleman present,' said Mr Pancks, breaking off and looking round, 'acquainted with the English Grammar? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- By the ninth and tenth centuries there are not only grammars, but great lexicons, and a mass of philological learning in Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I did; but the Captain was a Captain and a hero, in despite of all the grammars of all the languages in the world, dead or alive. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She had sat up of nights conning lessons and spelling over crabbed grammars and geography books in order to teach them to Georgy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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