How do you use the word "grammar" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "grammar": You must practice grammar. You must study grammar more.

Grammar Meaning

/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.

nounA system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general., The study of such a system.

Sentence Examples

You must practice grammar.

You must study grammar more.

He has extracted a great many examples from the grammar book.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The final exam covered ____ and sentence structure.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Learning the rules of ____ is essential for anyone who wants to write clearly and effectively in a new language.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"We must learn a new grammar of power in a world that is made up more of the common good – or the common bad – than of self-interest or national interest." — 2011, Javier Solana; Daniel Innerarity, Project Syndicate, The New Grammar of Power:

"To turn this sort of mixture of a gossip and a gospel into anything like a grammar of Distributism has been quite impossible." — 1926, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “VI: A Summary”, in The Outline of Sanity, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., →OCLC:

"He’s the old man’s only son. Some baby! Yep, right behind ya. Nope, he donno me. I was in Grammar when he was in High." — 1932, Grace Livingston Hill, chapter 6, in The Patch of Blue, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp Clark Company, Limited, published in the 20th century, →OCLC, page 128:

"Hickerson has a computer program which found a spaceship with speed c/3. In fact a whole grammar of them." — 1991 April 4, Bill Gosper, “LIFELINE:in search of the newsletter”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

"Within a few hours of finding the first period 2 ship, Dean had discovered a grammar for constructing an infinite number of different short, wide, period 2 spaceships. A grammar is an "alphabet" of "components", along with rules for the possible sequences of connections between components. Components are simply the identifiable pieces of a ship which reappear over and over in different ships in different combinations." — 1992 August 27, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 2a)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

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