Example sentences for: grammars

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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