Example sentences for: grammarian

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

  • You have gone far geographically, and, I was going to say, careerwise, but as your mother is a strict grammarian I knew she would wince at that "wise" ending.

  • Sir Randolph Quirk, the most famous British grammarian, says that the ordinal question can be obliquely asked in English like this: How many presidents were there before Bill Clinton?

  • "Today's Papers" appreciates all its sharp-eyed grammarian readers and will press on irregardless of its occasional missteps.

  • Writing a grammar entails many judgements, but the most relevant for my purposes here is to wonder about the amount of information brought to the task by the grammarian.

  • Having no copy of Aelfric's Homilies available to me, I am unable to see exactly what this cleric and grammarian wrote c. 1000, but I will lay you dollars to doughnuts ( low colloq ., ca. 1920, Partridge) that the Grammarian is not the source of the misquote qua proverb, Money is the root of all evil.


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