Example sentences for: grammar

How can you use “grammar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Inglish differs from English in five ways: words, expressions, grammar, pronunciation and rhythm.

  • Greenbaum in his Grammar , with its democratic, what's said, corpus-based approach to language, unwittingly, I am quite sure, keeps the really proper use of English in the hands of those who are to the manner born, while allowing the media moguls to interpret or misinterpret the topics of public concern as they will and at the same time disallowing the vulgar from gaining a firm grasp on the means by which they might enter the debate.

  • The grammar and construction, though, are Nguni and distinctly unfamiliar.

  • In the “good old days,” when the system was presumably better, many books on usage were also published, so one must conclude that although students then might have been “exposed” to grammar and usage, they did not learn it.

  • Whether Greta Garbo actually ever said, I want to be alone (she did), is of little consequence in the larger scheme of things; but the world consists of many parts, including many smaller--even infinitesimal--things, and we must not turn our noses up at the exact wording of Neil Armstrong's moon quotation: at least it was in English, and one need not try to explain that in Et tu, Brute , the last word is not the English word brute but the vocative case of Latin Brutus and then go off into the paroxysmal grammar of Latin to explain what a vocative is.


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