What's the difference between grammar and grammarian?

Grammar


Definition:

  • (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.
  • (n.) The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.
  • (n.) A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.
  • (n.) treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography.
  • (v. i.) To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The report follows the recent campaign by Theresa May to overturn the existing ban on allowing new grammar schools to open.
  • (2) Young people from ordinary working families that are struggling to get by.” Labour said Greening’s department had deliberately excluded the poorest families from her calculations to make access to grammar schools seem fairer and accused her of “fiddling the figures”.
  • (3) Higher rates of regular smoking and of children who had tried smoking were found in secondary modern schools, followed by middle, comprehensive and grammar schools.
  • (4) Major attended not a comprehensive – as the Telegraph had it, since corrected online – but Rutlish Grammar school.
  • (5) Much of the research dealing with linguistic dimensions in stuttering has emphasized the various aspects of grammar, particularly as these aspects contribute to the meaning of utterances.
  • (6) The results were analysed from the standpoint of grammar of clauses and their informative contents.
  • (7) I honestly, hand on heart, can’t see how the government expects state secondary schools – not just grammar schools – to continue to improve standards and to get better results for children, but at the same time impose cuts on our budgets.
  • (8) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
  • (9) Black marks from the old Etonian, former grammar school teacher first: the Treasury, and the departments of business and transport have been by far the worst at integrating environment, economy and social matters, he says.
  • (10) Grammar schools cannot help 90% of children Read more The attainment gap also widened in 19 of the 35 fully and partially selective areas (54%) in 2013-14 and 2014-15, which are the latest years for which data is available.
  • (11) He added that “many other” grammar schools were doing the same.
  • (12) The method is based on a semantic representation of findings that both minimize the effect of misrecognition and derive grammars that are necessary for supporting the recognition process.
  • (13) My wife is ex-Workers Revolutionary Party, so let’s not go there – she’s mellowed a bit down the years!” Whelan was a bright boy who passed the 11-plus and went to grammar school: the Oratory, where Tony Blair sent his children.
  • (14) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
  • (15) And if they haven’t got a grammar school but want one?
  • (16) Anyone who thinks grammar schools are going to increase social mobility needs to look at those figures.
  • (17) Jeremy Corbyn’s disagreement with his wife over whether their son should attend a selective grammar school or the local comprehensive apparently led to their breakup.
  • (18) In areas where grammar schools took the brightest pupils, other schools suffered from deflated results.
  • (19) These subjects were tested on a wide variety of structures of English grammar, using a grammaticality judgment task.
  • (20) While grammar schooling taught me how to do well in exams, comprehensive education has taught me to think on my feet, and to understand and engage with people from different backgrounds and wide-ranging circumstances.

Grammarian


Definition:

  • (n.) One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.
  • (n.) One who writes on, or teaches, grammar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I Only Have Eyes for You – The Flamingos Or, to the armchair grammarian, "I Have Eyes Only for You".
  • (2) It's like the Hunger Games, just for prescriptive grammarians.
  • (3) Like not splitting the infinitive, this became a "rule" when taught by grammarians influenced by Latin.
  • (4) But even after a century of nagging by prescriptive grammarians, the "who–whom" distinction remains tenuous in speech and informal writing.
  • (5) The results seem to partly support the notion of Sanskrit grammarians in that their concept regarding the vowel durations gain support from this study.
  • (6) Octavio Paz , in The Monkey Grammarian , says that the sense of the work is a terrifying anticipation.

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