GRAMMAR


Meaning of GRAMMAR in English

— grammarless , adj.

/gram"euhr/ , n.

1. the study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax.

2. these features or constructions themselves: English grammar.

3. an account of these features; a set of rules accounting for these constructions: a grammar of English.

4. Generative Gram. 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. See prescriptive grammar .

6. knowledge or usage of the preferred or prescribed forms in speaking or writing: She said his grammar was terrible.

7. the elements of any science, art, or subject.

8. a book treating such elements.

[ 1325-75; ME gramery gramaire gramatica grammatikè ( téchne ) GRAMMATICAL (art); see -AR 2 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .