Definition of Grammar

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Grammar

The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.

The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.

A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.

treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography.

To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

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Grammar Quotations

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn vos Savant

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
Richard Harris Barham

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Octavio Paz

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith

Grammar Translations

grammar in Afrikaans is grammatika
grammar in Dutch is grammatica, spraakleer, spraakkunst
grammar in French is grammaire
Grammar in German is Grammatik
grammar in Hungarian is nyelvtan
grammar in Italian is grammatica
grammar in Norwegian is grammatikk

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