Crossword clues for grammatical
grammatical
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grammatical \Gram*mat"ic*al\, a. [L. grammaticus, grammaticalis; Gr. ? skilled in grammar, knowing one's letters, from ? a letter: cf. F. grammatical. See Grammar.]
Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.
According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical.
-- Gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Gram*mat"ic*al*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Middle French grammatical and directly from Late Latin grammaticalis "of a scholar," from grammaticus "pertaining to grammar" (see grammar). Related: Grammatically (c.1400).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context linguistics English) acceptable as a correct sentence or clause as determined by the rules and conventions of the grammar, or morpho-syntax of the language. 2 Of or pertaining to grammar.
WordNet
adj. of or pertaining to grammar; "the grammatic structure of a sentence"; "grammatical rules"; "grammatical gender" [syn: grammatic]
conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers; "spoke in grammatical sentences" [syn: well-formed] [ant: ungrammatical]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "grammatical".
The most hilarious aspect is that they all spoke exactly like Hugh, so despite the chaotic neural effects they must have been using his brain pattern as some kind of general Chomskyan grammatical template for English.
And indeed, to do Mr Absolom justice, he was certainly at great pains to set off every thing to the best advantage, and usually put speeches to some of our names which showed that, in the way of grammaticals, he was even able to have mended some of the parliamentary clishmaclavers, of which the Londoners, with all their skill in the craft, are so seldom able to lick into any shape of common sense.
That is, words appear in many different forms depending on their precise function in any given grammatical context.
Some of these constitutional enactments are most magniloquently worded, but not always with precise grammatical correctness.
I would then copy the page word for word myself, with the same misspellings and grammatical errors, make photocopies of both, and have Samas examine them.
For those who are perhaps not familiar with Pisces, it is essentially English with different grammatical and metaphorical structures.
The father of literature became a Procrustean, grammatical bed on which we were to be stretched, and it did nearly exterminate every one of us.
The rhythmic repetition in these same instances of equal-sounding words of equal length in identical grammatical positions is essential to the songlike quality of the passage.
Latin words with which the Evangelist is invoked, in which, as I am told, there is a grammatical blunder which has become respectable by its long standing.
The plan of the volume does not demand an elaborate examination into the state of our language when Chaucer wrote, or the nice questions of grammatical and metrical structure which conspire with the obsolete orthography to make his poems a sealed book for the masses.
When we fall into the error of constructing such sentences as above, we should take them apart and reconstruct them in a different grammatical form.
But it seemed that during the many thousands of years of isolation when the tribes had taken refuge from the Long Winter in cocoons, each tribe had begun subtly to alter the way that it spoke, until one little alteration and another and another had produced, in time, entirely different vocabularies and grammatical forms.
Venice is also noteworthy for its peculiar system of heraldry, by the amusing form under which it portrays its patron saint, and by the five Latin words with which the Evangelist is invoked, in which, as I am told, there is a grammatical blunder which has become respectable by its long standing.
I have a superb vocabulary (monad, retractile, necropolis, palindrome, antidisestablishmentarianism) and a nonchalant command of all grammatical rules.
From my point of view she should judge my work by these rules and these only: (a) will it amuse and hold the attention of boyst (b) is it grammatical and as literate as my earlier stuff?