grammatical
pronunciation
How to pronounce grammatical in British English:
UK [grəˈmætɪkl]
How to pronounce grammatical in American English:
US [ɡrəˈmætɪkəl]
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- Adjective:
- of or pertaining to grammar
- conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers
Word Origin
- grammatical (adj.)
- 1520s, "of or pertaining to grammar," from Middle French grammatical and directly from Late Latin grammaticalis "of a scholar," from grammaticus "pertaining to grammar" (see grammar). Related: Grammatically (c. 1400).
Example
- 1. Any spelling or grammatical errors ?
- 2. The grammatical rules determine the effect of one chunk of text on another .
- 3. These often have different grammatical rules , and thus different conventional word orders .
- 4. Language is the main depository of these types of thought ; and one use of the grammatical instruction which children receive is unconsciously to turn their attention to distinctions of thought .
- 5. Mr everett says that the pirah lack grammatical recursion and that even if recursion is universal ( pirah use it in stories if not within sentences ) this does not prove the existence of the language organ .