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# grammarian

«grammarian» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who studies grammar, the rules of how words and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a grammarian, grammarians)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who studies grammar, the rules of how words and sentences are built in a language, or who writes books about it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammarian/#m1)

2) (informal) Someone who cares a lot about correct grammar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammarian/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In language lessons and olympiads grammarians are the experts who describe languages, such as the ancient Indian grammarian Pāṇini or writers of school grammar books. In everyday life a «grammar fan» corrects others' mistakes. Phrases: a strict grammarian, ancient grammarians.

### examples

- Pāṇini was an ancient grammarian who described Sanskrit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammarian/#x1)
- A grammarian would say «fewer apples», not «less apples». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammarian/#x2)
- The grammarian wrote a big book about English verbs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammarian/#x3)
- My aunt is a real grammarian and corrects every text. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammarian/#x4)
- Grammarians study how languages change over time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammarian/#x5)
- Not every grammarian agrees about split infinitives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammarian/#x6)
- I replied that I had been educated as a grammarian and a poet, but that my great gift was writing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammarian/#x7)

### note

Plural: grammarians. Stress: gruh-MAIR-ee-un. Spelling: grammar ends in -ar, not -er. Modern grammarians mostly describe how people really speak rather than give strict rules; dialects have their own grammar too.

### Trees and pragmatics

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