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  1. noun The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.
  2. noun The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history.
  3. noun The system of inflections, syntax, and word formation of a language.
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  • It would be inappropriate to comment on the politics in this forum (although I am sorely tempted), but the grammar is another story.
  • Had Rossetti's knowledge of the technique of painting, its science, been equal to his feeling for it, he had certainly founded a school of the truest art; but, for schools, the grammar is the first requisite, and Rossetti had himself never been taught what he would have had to teach. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
  • I spent the afternoon immersed in Hindi grammar, deciphering the written letters and trying to make sense of the vocabulary. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
  • “At least your grammar is all right,” he once said. —  The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
  • We all know our instruction in English grammar was spotty at best. —  Mental multivitamin
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  1. Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire, alteration of Latin grammatica, from Greek grammatikē, from feminine of grammatikos, of letters, from gramma, grammat-, letter; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also granmer; from Middle English grammere, usually with one m, gramer, gramere, gramour, sometimes gramary, gramery, gramory, from Old French gramaire, later and modern F. grammaire, feminine, grammar (cf. gramaire, masculine, a grammarian), = Provencal gramaira, gramairia, a popular form based on a Middle Latin type *grammaria, feminine, not found, the proper L. and Middle Latin form being grammatica, grammatice (later Italian Portuguese grammatica = Spanish gramádtica = Old French gramatique), from Greek γραμματική (sc. τέχνη, art), grammar, learning, criticism, fem, of γραμματικός, pertaining to or versed in letters or learning, from γράμμα, that which is drawn or written, a letter, writing, plural γράμματα, the letters, the alphabet, the rudiments, in writing, letters, learning, from γράφειν, draw, write: seegram, graphic, grave. Under the term grammar were formerly included, more or less vaguely, almost all branches of learning, as based on the study of language; and from this sense of ‘learning’ it came to imply profound or occult learning, and hence ‘magic, enchantment,’ in which sense the word is found in the variant forms gramary, gramery, etc.. and glamery, glamer, glamour, etc.: see gramary and glamour. See also glomery, another variant, in the literally sense.
  2. = Old French gramairer, gramarer, teach grammar; from the noun.
 

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