Definitions for grammar

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grammar gram·mar

Spelling: [gram-er]

IPA: /ˈgræm ər/

Grammar is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in grammar (aagmmrr).

Definitions for grammar

noun

1. the study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax.
2. these features or constructions themselves:
3. an account of these features; a set of rules accounting for these constructions:
4. 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.
5. prescriptive grammar.
6. knowledge or usage of the preferred or prescribed forms in speaking or writing:
7. the elements of any science, art, or subject.
8. a book treating such elements.

Origin of grammar

1325-75; Middle English gramery Old French gramaire Latin gramatica Greek grammatikḕ (téchnē) grammatical (art); see -ar²

Examples for grammar

At one point did you think, “T.I., London grammar, and Fall Out Boy together”?

At his best, he was an inventor of part of the modern cinema's grammar.

Fear of offending the grammar police can even produce a novel type of error called a hypercorrection.

"But it's sure to be him," chattered Simms, his teeth as crazy as his grammar.

What did those darned Muslims give us other than grammar and algebra?

The use of the pronoun, the disuse of the grammar pulled him up short.

Such may lie even in the region of grammar, or in the mere arrangement of a sentence.

I do not care to dwell on my experience at the grammar school.

When you approached T.I., London grammar, and Fall Out Boy to do this, what was their initial response to it?

In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number.