grammar

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /ˈɡræ.mə(r)/
• (US) enPR: gră'mər, IPA ^(key): /ˈɡræ.mɚ/

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• Hyphenation: gram‧mar

Noun

Singular grammar

Plural grammars

1. (uncountable) Grammar is the rules about how to speak and write well in a language. Grammar includes syntax (what order to put words in), morphology (how to make different forms of a word) and conjugation (what form of a word to use).

Related words

• grammatical

Grammar (edit)
parts of speech	noun - verb - adjective - adnoun - adverb - determinative/determiner - article - participle - pronoun - conjunction - preposition - interjection
grammatical functions	head - dependent - subject - predicate - predicator - object - complement - predicative complement - predicative adjunct - predicative oblique - appositive oblique - modifier - supplement - adjunct - determiner/specifier
clauses	main clause - dependent clause - subordinate clause - relative clause