(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.
Linguistics
Definition:
(n.) The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is argued that exposure to a linguistic structure that induces the child to operate on that structure can lead to a reorganization of linguistic knowledge even though no direct feedback has been given as to its correct adult interpretation.
(2) Underperformance in reading, writing, and other linguistic skills as well as visuo-spatial excellence may result from these changes.
(3) The linguistic performances of 15 noninstitutionalized and 15 institutionalized retarded children were compared on usage of grammatical categories and structure of spoken language (Length--Complexity Index) and for underlying subskills (Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities).
(4) Fundamental frequency (F0) values are reported for 14 children between the ages of 11 and 25 months, an age period characterized by changes in physiological and linguistic development.
(5) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
(6) The search for the acoustic properties useful to the listener in extracting the linguistic message from a speech signal is often construed as the task of matching invariant physical properties to invariant phonological percepts; the discovery of the former will explain the latter.
(7) 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.
(8) Prior to undertaking the exploration of phenomena in a research study with people from different cultures, certain elements must be addressed in order to bridge cultural and linguistic differences.
(9) The main effects and interactions of speech and gesture in combination with quantitative models of performance showed the following similarities in information processing between preschoolers and adults: (1) referential evaluation of gestures occurs independently of the evaluation of linguistic reference; (2) speech and gesture are continuous, rather than discrete, sources of information; (3) 5-year-olds and adults combine the two types of information in such a way that the least ambiguous source has the most impact on the judgment.
(10) The model is based on neural processes rather than linguistic or symbolic constructs.
(11) The literature suggests that cleft palate children and adults perform below their peers on both linguistic and nonlinguistic tasks.
(12) Broca's aphasia is characterized by disorders on the phonemic, syntactic and lexical level of linguistic description.
(13) Rozanne Colchester , a linguist who worked on Italian airforce codes and was an MI6 agent after the war, said: "There were a great many love affairs going on about which we did not speak in those claustrophobic days of the war.
(14) Linguistic analysis shows that the information is written in a difficult style with a median readability index of 48.2.
(15) Applicants were then required to provide strong evidence to the NSW crown solicitor’s office of connection to country, and included affidavits from traditional owners and reports by an anthropologist, historian and linguist.
(16) The speech problems of our patients seemed to indicate higher level motor encoding problems of linguistic information rather than peripheral articulatory deficits.
(17) This diversity approximated that found when linguistically unrelated groups were compared.
(18) These results differ from those obtained previously with noncorresponding pairs of linguistic-nonlinguistic dimensions.
(19) "This research is not only an extremely complex and interesting study of songbirds, it also gives us a unique insight into how brain development may contribute to human linguistic capabilities," said Prof Tamas Szekely of the Biodiversity Lab at the University of Bath's department of biology and biochemistry.
(20) Strong relationships appear between linguistic and fine motor skills in an age group not previously investigated and at higher levels than reported in studies of infants and very young children.