Question 1 · Quick check
grammar
CEFRA1
/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
The rules for forming words and sentences in a language.
- 02
noun
Extra detailActual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
Examples
He has extracted a great many examples from the grammar book.
You must study grammar more.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
Also pronounced
- [ˈɡɹam.ɚ]
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
The study of such a system.
A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.
More examples
In contextYou must practice grammar.
Because real lexicons are big and complex, from a software engineering perspective it is best to write simple grammars that have a simple, well-defined way, of pulling out the information they need from vast lexicons. That is, grammars should be thought of as...
a grammar of geography
Quick test
Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.
Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.
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Origin
noun
From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire. Piecewise doublet of grammatic.