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Definition grammar

Etymology

From Middle English gramer, gramarye, gramery, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (grammatik?, “skilled in writing”), from ?????? (grámma, “line of writing”), from ????? (gráph?, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerb?- (“to carve, scratch”).

Noun

grammar (countable and uncountable, plural grammars)

1. A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
2. (uncountable, linguistics) The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
3. A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
4. (computing theory) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
5. Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
6. (computing theory) A formal system defining a formal language
7. The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
8. (Britain, archaic) A textbook.
9. (Britain) A grammar school.

Verb

grammar (third-person singular simple present grammars, present participle grammaring, simple past and past participle grammared)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

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