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grammar

/gram-er/US // ˈgræm ər //UK // (ˈɡræmə) //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax.
    • : these features or constructions themselves: English grammar.
    • : an account of these features; a set of rules accounting for these constructions: a grammar of English.
    • : 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.
    • : prescriptive grammar.
    • : knowledge or usage of the preferred or prescribed forms in speaking or writing: She said his grammar was terrible.
    • : the elements of any science, art, or subject.
    • : a book treating such elements.

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Examples

  • They had enough predictive power to be useful for applications like autocomplete, but not enough to generate a long sentence that followed grammar rules and common sense.

  • Platform limitations, certainly, and an inherent understanding that it’s part of the internet’s cinematic grammar.

  • Your ideas evoke probably the only controversy in the linguistics world that has spilled over to popular culture—the debate over “universal grammar.”

  • If universal grammar is a capacity of the human species alone, then of course the Pirahã have universal grammar.

  • There are particular theories of what might be in universal grammar.

  • 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.

  • The outraged grammar stickler mistakes a convention for an immutable and fundamental law of the universe.

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

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

  • The second grammar class had been relieved from a recitation by this confab, and somehow Perry had a subduing influence.

  • A barber having a dispute with a parish clerk on a point of grammar, the latter said it was a downright barbarism, indeed.

  • French, the English Grammar, and the rudiments of Latin comprised the only systematic training which she received.

  • There was Cliff Manning, you turned the cold shoulder to him because he couldnt talk grammar.

  • He wouldnt talk grammar, or he couldnt spell or read Greek, and she will turn away, laughed Mrs. Wadsworth.