Example sentences for: grammar

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

  • Grammar, the genetic blueprint of meaning, operates at a level of abstraction.

  • This is not the place to launch a commentary on the shortcomings and virtues of the various theories of grammar (or grammatical theories) that have been proposed; suffice it to say that no one of them provides all the answers to all the myriad questions raised by language.

  • Indeed, some of Greenbaum's presentation amounts to a tacit commentary on and reflects valid criticism of the inconsistencies found in traditional grammar.

  • The interdiction is meaningless for English grammar (or style), having been carried over from Latin, where a preposition must accompany the word it is connected with syntactically and semantically; like the caveat concerning split infinitives, which cannot be split in Latin because, as in most other Indo-European languages, they are single words, unsplittable nuclei, unlike the atom,

  • Perhaps it is precisely because our approach to the grammar of English is still in many ways based on Latin grammar that we do not have a specific grammatical term for name-based verbs, and it is time to give proper recognition to this feature.


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