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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grammatical
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a grammatical/spelling/typing error
▪ You lose marks if your paper contains spelling errors.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
analysis
▪ The problem with adult learners is that they already have strategies for grammatical analysis and can efficiently use context in communication.
▪ This approach to grammatical analysis is largely the brainchild of Chomsky.
category
▪ There are 60 grammatical categories specified within this lexicon indicating such properties as transitive verb, plural noun, proper noun etc.
▪ Firstly one must determine the grammatical categories of the words in the lattice.
▪ Hence it was necessary to first determine the grammatical categories of the words in the corpus.
▪ Each word is tagged with its grammatical category.
▪ Indeed, it is not surprising that a member of this particular grammatical category should have been brought into play here.
▪ Example 1 above should be detected as an error by analysis of the grammatical categories of the words.
▪ The process of learning words, learning their grammatical categories and acquiring them in correct combinations is very much a two-way affair.
▪ We can see this very clearly if we consider the grammatical category of gender.
construction
▪ It examines sounds and grammatical constructions that occur in natural languages, and how meaning is conveyed.
▪ Each sentence could be studied in isolation and be analysed in terms of grammatical construction, lexical content and so on.
error
▪ A letter appeared in the Independent pointing out that he made a number of grammatical errors.
▪ Sometimes a student would make a grammatical error in the course of an answer and Martinez would counter with a prim correction.
▪ Most young employees are quite unable to write simple letters without spelling and grammatical errors.
form
▪ Further refinements proposed by Greenfield include an analysis of the significance of grammatical forms for cognitive facility.
function
▪ Consequently, it is wrong to say that it has a grammatical function.
▪ In addition, the grammatical function and meaning of words affects both the location and duration of fixations.
▪ The constituent buffer contains constituents which are complete but whose higher level grammatical function is uncertain.
▪ These are words of closed, classes which have grammatical functions in the phrase, clause or sentence.
gender
▪ The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender.
▪ All these possibilities exemplify the phenomenon of grammatical gender because items are classified according to their form.
rule
▪ It should be pointed out that the audio-lingual method group of theorists do not minimise the importance of giving grammatical rules.
▪ The first control is exercised by grammatical rules.
▪ How long does it take to refer to a grammatical rule?
▪ The child can speak and use most grammatical rules and can understand what is heard if it contains familiar vocabulary.
▪ This focus is at a deeper level than that of grammatical rules that concern specific languages.
▪ Capitalization occurs only where normal according to grammatical rules.
▪ The morpheme is the smallest unit of language that expresses meaning and is governed by the grammatical rules of the language.
▪ Care has been taken to ensure that getting the right answer requires a genuine understanding of the grammatical rules.
structure
▪ A parser is an extension of a recogniser which assigns grammatical structure to the input.
▪ Her tests for the relation between grammatical structure and context formation similarly show the unschooled Wolof children in a poor light.
▪ Dialect, accent, lexical choice and grammatical structures are all interpreted by speakers and addressees as signifying status.
▪ Cognitive grammar activities Regular grammar activities encourage the students to think about the grammatical structures of the new language.
▪ This patient's verbal output consisted almost entirely of content words there were almost no function words and no grammatical structure.
▪ Language spot Regular language spots encourage the students to think about the grammatical structure of the new language.
▪ They are used in learning vocabulary as well as for mastering grammatical structure.
system
▪ The difficulties that arise from the different demands made by the grammatical systems of different languages in translation should not be underestimated.
▪ The grammatical system of each language will itself encourage the use of certain devices in preference to others.
▪ Another powerful factor which determines the kind of distinctions we regularly make in reporting experience is the grammatical system of our language.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grammatical errors
▪ a grammatical sentence
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dialect, accent, lexical choice and grammatical structures are all interpreted by speakers and addressees as signifying status.
▪ Her tests for the relation between grammatical structure and context formation similarly show the unschooled Wolof children in a poor light.
▪ Idiomatic meanings are not compositional in the sense of being determined from the meaning of the constituent words and their grammatical relations.
▪ Or, for that matter, between one grammatical idea and another.
▪ Remember: You should be able to remove the material in parentheses completely and still have a correctly punctuated, grammatical sentence.
▪ The first control is exercised by grammatical rules.
▪ The main information that the probabilistic syntax analyser needs from the lexicon is the grammatical tag of each of the candidate words.
▪ This approach to grammatical analysis is largely the brainchild of Chomsky.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grammatical

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.]

  1. Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.

  2. 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
grammatical

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
grammatical

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
grammatical
  1. adj. of or pertaining to grammar; "the grammatic structure of a sentence"; "grammatical rules"; "grammatical gender" [syn: grammatic]

  2. 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?