grammar
Part of speech: noun
The science treating the correct use of language; a treatise on this subject; any elementary treatise.
Usage examples "grammar":
- We desired, if possible, admission into some respectable German family, where we should be forced to speak German, and in which our society, if I may so express it, would be some compensation for our bad grammar. - "Saunterings", Charles Dudley Warner Last Updated: February 22, 2009.
- In the same manner we abstract the rule of grammar from a number of individual examples. - "The Reform of Education", Giovanni Gentile.
- T. Phillips, D. D., Head Master of the Grammar School. - "Toronto of Old", Henry Scadding.