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# grammar

«grammar» in Mova's school dictionary: **The rules of a language about how words change and are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (grammar, grammars)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The rules of a language about how words change and are put together into sentences. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#m1)

2) Using those rules correctly in speech or writing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#m2)

3) A book about grammar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#m3)

4) (UK) Short for «grammar school», a school that picks pupils by a test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons: grammar covers nouns, verbs, tenses, clauses and punctuation, with grammar tests (SPaG). «Good grammar» means correct sentences. In the UK, some children take a test to go to a grammar school.

### examples

- We have a grammar test on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#x1)
- Check your grammar before you hand it in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#x2)
- Every language has its own grammar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#x3)
- She bought a French grammar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#x4)
- My cousin goes to the grammar school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#x5)
- Grammar helps us make our meaning clear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#x6)
- His spelling is good, but his grammar needs work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#x7)
- Readers, geographies, histories, grammars flew in all directions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/#x8)

### note

Spelling trap: grammar ends in -ar, not -er. Uncountable for the rules; countable for books. Adjective: grammatical.

### In the corpora

- [«Grammar» ends in -ar, not -er.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/9/)
- [«Grammar» ends in -ar, not -er.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/22/)
- [My, your, his, her, our and their before a noun are called possessive determiners in school grammar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/27/)
- [A dialect is a variety of a language with its own words and grammar, spoken by a group or in a place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/5/)
- [SATs grammar questions in England ask for Standard English, so pupils need to know the standard forms as well as their home forms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grammar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.