Synonyms for grammar
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : gram-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgræm ər |
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Définition of grammar
Origin :- early 14c., gramarye (late 12c. in surnames), from Old French gramaire "learning," especially Latin and philology, "grammar, (magic) incantation, spells, mumbo-jumbo," "irregular semi-popular adoption" [OED] of Latin grammatica, from Greek grammatike tekhne "art of letters," with a sense of both philology and literature in the broadest sense, fem. adjective from gramma "letter," from stem of graphein "to draw or write" (see -graphy). An Old English word for it was stæfcræft.
- Form grammar is from late 14c. Restriction to "rules of language" is a post-classical development, but as this type of study was until 16c. limited to Latin, Middle English gramarye also came to mean "learning in general, knowledge peculiar to the learned classes" (early 14c.), which included astrology and magic; hence the secondary meaning of "occult knowledge" (late 15c.), which evolved in Scottish into glamor (q.v.).
- A grammar school (late 14c.) originally was "a school in which the learned languages are grammatically taught" [Johnson, who also has grammaticaster "a mean verbal pedant"]. In U.S. (1842) the term was put to use in the graded system for "a school between primary and secondary where English grammar is taught."
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- In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- The use of the pronoun, the disuse of the grammar pulled him up short.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- "But it's sure to be him," chattered Simms, his teeth as crazy as his grammar.
- Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- Such may lie even in the region of grammar, or in the mere arrangement of a sentence.
- Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
- I do not care to dwell on my experience at the grammar school.
- Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
- Language has many varieties of usage: grammar tries to reduce them to a single one.
- Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
- These instances are sufficient to show the sort of errors which grammar introduces into language.
- Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
- The necessity of forgetting his clothes and remembering his grammar was a heavy burden.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Say 'cal'late' if you want to, I am not going to fret you about your grammar any more, Daniel.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- And is it your opinion that there is a lore and science of Right and Justice just as there is of letters and grammar?
- Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon
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