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# grammatical

«grammatical» in Mova's school dictionary: **Correct according to the rules of grammar** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (grammatical)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Correct according to the rules of grammar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#m1)

2) To do with grammar: «a grammatical mistake». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons: «Is this sentence grammatical?» A grammatical error is a mistake like «they was». Teachers mark grammatical mistakes in writing.

### examples

- This sentence is not grammatical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x1)
- Correct the grammatical mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x2)
- "We was late" is not grammatical in standard English. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x3)
- Her writing is clear and grammatical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x4)
- Grammatical rules can be tricky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x5)
- Find the grammatical error in each line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x6)

### note

Opposite: ungrammatical. Adverb: grammatically. Some dialect forms (like «we was») are normal in speech in some places but not in standard written English.

### Trees and pragmatics

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