What's the difference between grammar and punctuation?

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.

Punctuation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
  • (2) Usually, there is leucoplakia with an erythema and an irregular keratosis or a punctuated one.
  • (3) Their unique point of view comes from diverse social and cultural experiences punctuated by a lifetime of inequities.
  • (4) Whatever social progress that marks her era came mainly from those Labour punctuations – abolition of capital punishment, Race Relations Act, abortion and homosexual law reform, equal pay and sex discrimination acts, civil partnerships, minimum wage, Sure Start, devolution, human rights, nursery education, a vast expansion of universities and more.
  • (5) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
  • (6) It is the first time in the short history of a country that has been repeatedly punctuated by periods of military rule that a former dictator has been held to account for his actions.
  • (7) Calcification, found in 2 of these cases, was characteristically discrete and nodular (calcifications found in chronic pancreatitis are typically diffuse, multiple, and punctuate).
  • (8) Her interventions will punctuate the conversation that follows.
  • (9) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
  • (10) A region upstream of the IPNS structural gene (pcbC) has been sequenced and the transcription initiation sites appear as major and minor pairs on either side of one of the pyrimidine-rich blocks that punctuate the promoter sequence.
  • (11) Then she married, had two more children, moved to Hawaii and lead a regular life working in real estate, punctuated by paparazzi camping out on her lawn whenever Polanski made a move.
  • (12) – but Russell happily slips in and out of voices and lines from the movie, his recollections punctuated by wistful sighs.
  • (13) After a period on Radio Luxembourg he was offered the freelance job of disc jockey on the radio programme Housewives' Choice, on which Jacobs had to play record requests and punctuate them with anodyne chat.
  • (14) As the story progresses, we follow our lunkhead hero Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) on his steps up the military ladder, and we find out, through deeply satirical propaganda adverts that punctuate the action, that this war might not be so just and that the humans we've been cheering are from a fascist society.
  • (15) In a year that will be punctuated by sober reflection and a series of commemorative occasions, it is tempting to assume a certain inevitability to events, especially when looking at them through the prism of hindsight.
  • (16) On Wembley Way the party atmosphere had been briefly punctuated by a skirmish between rival fans.
  • (17) We evaluate ten components, each of one is pointed between 0 and two, then overall incontinence punctuation (I.P.)
  • (18) When quiescent normal cells were PCNA-stained at 3 h after 100 microM CDDP treatment for 1 h, almost all nuclei of the cells showed a punctuated staining pattern.
  • (19) The two men, from different political camps, have a polite relationship that has sometimes been barbed and punctuated by stinging Conservative quips about French leftwing tax-and-spend policies .
  • (20) Yet Lemieux was unmistakably getting the worst of the exchanges and was finally dropped by a three-punch sequence punctuated by a left to the body late in the round.