Grammar (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  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. 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: She said his grammar was terrible.
  7. the elements of any science, art, or subject.
  8. a book treating such elements.
noun
  1. the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology, sometimes also phonology and semantics
  2. the abstract system of rules in terms of which a person's mastery of his native language can be explained
  3. a systematic description of the grammatical facts of a language
  4. a book containing an account of the grammatical facts of a language or recommendations as to rules for the proper use of a language
    • the use of language with regard to its correctness or social propriety, esp in syntax
    • (as modifier)
  6. the elementary principles of a science or art
Grammar (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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