Example sentences for: grammars

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

  • There can be no confuting the fact that the grammar of modern English—that is, the English in use for the past two centuries—differs little from that of earlier stages of the language: after all, languages are sorted and distinguished by linguists on the basis of their grammars, not their lexicons.

  • Here now, amid the standard course-books and grammars, is a specialist dictionary of English personal names, or as we would probably prefer to call them, first names.

  • Also, it should be understood that American Grammar , while it happens to deal with illustrations from American English, describes the grammar of most of English: the title derives from the association with America of the particular kind of grammatical analysis described: except for a few anomalous differences, the grammars of the major dialects of English are, of course, uniform.

  • For the most part, despite the occasional campaigning for linguistic liberalism (aimed, obviously, at 20th- and, presumably, 21st-century readers), what emerges is an engaging picture of concerned speakers of English, some of them pedants trying to establish (or preserve) some purity in the language, the remainder readers of the works published by the former in the shape of grammars, usage guides, pronunciation guides, spellers, etc.

  • Of course, we all know that there is a tangible overlap between dictionaries and grammars rather than a no-man's land between them, and this in spite of their different purposes.


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