Example sentences for: grammars

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

  • Given that grammars are often used on a systematic basis--the regularities dominate the idiosyncrasies--grammarians write and format them on that basis; yet grammars are also used, exceedingly often, on a single-shot basis, a quick in and out, just like a normal dictionary consultation.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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