Word
grammatical
Phoneticsgram·mat·i·cal
US/ɡɹəˈmætəkəɫ/
UK/ɡɹɐmˈætɪkəl/
Definitions
01correct according to rules
adj. describes a sentence or phrase that follows the rules of a language correctly.
adj. conforming to the morphosyntactic rules of a specific language; well-formed.
“The teacher checked if the student's essay was grammatical and easy to read.”
“Native speakers often produce utterances that are perfectly functional in conversation even if they are not strictly grammatical in a formal sense.”
Pitfall
The student made a grammatical mistake.
The student made a grammar mistake.
While 'grammatical mistake' is common, 'grammar mistake' or 'error in grammar' is often preferred to avoid the contradiction of calling a mistake 'grammatical'.
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02relating to grammar
adj. related to the study of the rules of a language.
adj. of or pertaining to the system and structure of a language.
“We spent the morning looking at different grammatical structures in the textbook.”
“The researcher analyzed the grammatical categories of the newly discovered dialect to determine its relationship to other regional languages.”
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“He derived the Sanskrit term asamakālika from a- (not), sama (same) and kāla (time), which he then adapted to asamakālikamu in Telugu, in keeping with the grammatical rules of the language.” “By the end of his life, Overton notes, the man’s spoken English has taken on the grammatical patterns of French.” Etymology
From Middle French grammatical, from Latin grammaticālis.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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