Definition of grammar

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Grammar (n.) The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.

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Grammatist :: Grammatist (n.) A petty grammarian.
Accidence :: Accidence (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar..
Derivation :: Derivation (n.) The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root..
Grammarian :: Grammarian (n.) One who writes on, or teaches, grammar..
Grammar :: Grammar (n.) The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing..
Suttee :: Sutra (n.) A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature..
Drill :: Drill (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar..
Than :: Than (conj.) A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that y
Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar..
Primitive :: Primitive (a.) Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar..
Guna :: Guna (n.) In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages..
Prosody :: Prosody (n.) That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition..
Grammatication :: Grammatication (n.) A principle of grammar; a grammatical rule.
Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
Orthography :: Orthography (n.) The part of grammar which treats of the letters, and of the art of spelling words correctly..
Grammar :: Grammar (n.) treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography..
Example :: Example (n.) An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples..
Etymology :: Etymology (n.) That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
Grammatical :: Grammatical (a.) According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical..
Latin :: Latin (a.) Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom..
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