noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a grammar school British English (= a secondary school for children who have passed an exam when they are 11 )
grammar school
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
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Instead they believe that it is Sampson's generative grammar formulation that is at fault.
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The rewrite rule is an effective method of representing the rules of a generative grammar .
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There are applications for which a generative grammar would be better suited than a probabilistic one.
local
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The local grammar school had put too much of a gawky human edge on his son's image.
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Her husband Ronnie, once headmaster at the local grammar school, is still in a coma after the bombing.
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Eventually we moved to Dorset where my father taught at the local grammar school.
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Monty was an Old Boy of the local grammar school.
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John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire.
old
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The new comprehensive schools, educationalists complained, seemed to have less social mixing than the old grammar schools had done.
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I leaned against the wall and thought back to a graduation party at my old grammar school.
pedagogical
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The purpose of a pedagogical grammar is to teach the student to speak the language.
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In every pedagogical grammar , there should be a plan for systematic revision of previously taught material.
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In order to meet this type of situation you need to know how to evaluate a pedagogical grammar . 9.2.
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Some of the principles of planning and writing a pedagogical grammar will now be considered.
traditional
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However, most of the research has relied upon a narrow and traditional form of grammar teaching.
vocabulary
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From these sources he is piecing together the vocabulary and grammar of Gothic.
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Dialect refers to vocabulary and grammar .
■ NOUN
rule
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Students are not simply presented with grammar rules - instead grammar is treated as a problem-solving activity.
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Make sure your editor provides you with comments based on sound principles and grammar rules , not on taste.
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Unification is the controlling factor that determines whether categories are able to combine to satisfy a grammar rule .
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Oxford Practice Grammar has been designed to satisfy your students' need for clear grammar rules and exercises.
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It is not to be expected that each sentence written will obey grammar rules .
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Understanding the grammar rules may reinforce fluency and accuracy, but will not of itself enable you to speak correctly.
school
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From one fairly typical grammar school , studied by Colin Lacey, the fee-payers had almost disappeared as early as 1925.
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Read in studio A grammar school headmaster has been cleared of assaulting a twelve year old girl pupil.
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I by contrast contrived to leave my grammar school in the Midlands without A levels.
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In both cases, opting out was perceived as a means of ensuring the survival of grammar school status.
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In Ulster, there are 72 grammar schools out of 238 secondary schools, and no posh independent schools at all.
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The anti-grammar school campaigners complained that the ballot rules were too complicated and unfair.
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Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school.
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Some three-quarters of all the pupils in them had the necessary ability for admission to grammar schools .
structure
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Category scale grammar See class structure grammar.
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Class structure grammar See also class; set; system; structure.
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In class structure grammar these form a class.
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Chomsky explains this phenomenon by suggesting that human individuals are innately endowed with a deep structure grammar of language.
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In class structure grammar these -ly adverbs are members of an open set.
■ VERB
learn
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Our pupils will, therefore, learn basic grammar as well as developing their communicative skills.
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I learned the grammar , the ritual behavior, the slow walk of openings.
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For language learning is essentially learning how grammar functions in the achievement of meaning and it is a mistake to suppose otherwise.
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Remember the first sentence you learned in grammar school?
teach
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Grammar I stick to facts and teach the rules of grammar .
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The founder often made provision for the mass-priest to teach a grammar school.
use
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Unfortunately it is essential to use a large grammar to achieve a large coverage of the language.
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A sixth question should also be added: Do deaf people around the world use the same grammar ?
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Both of these dictionaries use structured grammar codes to indicate grammatical patterns in which the words may participate.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
generative grammar/linguistics/phonology
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In generative phonology, the claim is that, at the abstract level, vowels are simply tense or lax.
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Instead they believe that it is Sampson's generative grammar formulation that is at fault.
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The rewrite rule is an effective method of representing the rules of a generative grammar.
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There are applications for which a generative grammar would be better suited than a probabilistic one.
spell/grammar checker
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A spell checker , word count feature and thesaurus are all included and the program can handle headers and footers.
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However, a dictionary pack for PageMaker is available which contains PageMaker spell checker modules for 20 different languages.
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Some of these packages include excellent typographic extras, like a spell checker or thesaurus.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a good French grammar
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English grammar is very different from Japanese grammar.
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Students' essays will be graded for grammar and spelling.
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Again, traditional teaching has tended to dissociate grammar from context and to deal in isolated sentences.
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For Mrs Furry was our ideal of what a grammar school teacher should be.
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Since the principal function of grammar is to indicate how units of meaning are to be combined, this is scarcely surprising.
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The grammar schools and secondary moderns are similar in terms of class exclusivity.
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The augmented grammar contains the rules of the original grammar plus rules which characterise the structures that the transformations can add.
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This is particularly so in the case of a recogniser with a very general grammar .
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Tone greatly aids the researchers' understanding of Creole grammar , which appears less simple than was thought.
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What happened to us in our seven years at the grammar school was that we felt safe and we felt encouraged.