(a.) Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.
(a.) According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contrary to Taylor (1966) there were significant correlations between stuttering and grammatical class even when initial phoneme and word in sentence were held constant.
(2) 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).
(3) When grammatical repairs and repairs to text meaning were analysed, no group differences were found for either repair type.
(4) During subsequent assessments, agrammatic aphasics reveal on a metalinguistic judgment task their significant difficulty appreciating the grammatical form class of "bice"; on an object classification task, fluent aphasics are significantly impaired in their classification of bice-colored objects as "bice."
(5) One example of this type of interdisciplinary research is the attempt to construct a grammatical theory of the regulation of gene expression.
(6) The proportion of paradigmatic responses varied with the grammatical class of the stimulus word and with the vocabulary level of the subject, but not with age.
(7) Explanation for this is sought in the grammatical location of these two units.
(8) As predicted, the younger children were better at correcting the nouns than the verbs; the two grammatical forms were corrected equally well by the older children.
(9) He frequently intermingled two sentences to convey a given concept, juxtaposing words in grammatically unacceptable ways.
(10) These subjects were tested on a wide variety of structures of English grammar, using a grammaticality judgment task.
(11) As regards the text measurements discriminating capacity, it was found out that grammatical analysis, with its high reliability, and validity, proved to be the best discriminative tool.
(12) Aphasics repeated accurately more grammatical than ungrammatical sentences.
(13) This study investigated the possibility that the reported success of agrammatic aphasic patients in performing auditory grammaticality judgments results from their use of intonational cues to sentence well-formedness.
(14) Skills 41, 578-593, 1975) indicated no significant difference in mean discrimination scores under the grammatical and semantically anomalous conditions; however, significance was found for the ungrammatical masker.
(15) The aphasic patients' performance was slightly worse for both signal-processed conditions, but there was little apparent effect of removing sentence intonation on their ability to judge sentence grammaticality.
(16) The hypotheses for the grammar of genome structure are: (i) the "grammaticality" of the linguistic approach studies the "regulability" of genome structures; (ii) the "regulability" of genetic structures is independent from their specific biochemical meaning and (iii) the dynamics of regulation is implicit in the genome structure.
(17) He omitted 43% of articles, 40% of complementizers, 20% of pronouns, 27% of semantically marked prepositions, 43% of purely grammatic prepositions, and 22% of auxiliary verbs, but his average sentence length was 9.8 words and 64% of his sentences contained embedded clauses.
(18) Theoretical considerations and psycholinguistic studies have alternatively provided criticism and support for the proposal that semantic and grammatical functions are distinct subprocesses within the language domain.
(19) The contrasting performance suggests that grammatical-class distinctions are redundantly represented in the phonological and orthographic output lexical components.
(20) A wide variety of linguistic parameters designed to reflect verbal productivity and grammatical complexity was selected for analysis.
Preterite
Definition:
(a. & n.) Same as Preterit.
Example Sentences:
(1) A research on the acquisition of morphemes of plural, diminutive, augmentative, gerund, imperfect, and preterite with 109 Spanish children from 3 to 6 is reported.