With a note including the following observations:Īs above defined, grammar is a body of statements of fact-a ‘science’ but a large portion of it may be viewed as consisting of rules for practice, and so as forming an ‘art’. designating the language referred to, as in Latin, English, French grammar. That department of the study of a language which deals with its inflexional forms or other means of indicating the relations of words in the sentence, and with the rules for employing these in accordance with established usage usually including also the department which deals with the phonetic system of the language and the principles of its representation in writing. The OED gives a longer definition (which is from 1900, so not entirely current, but I think it can be trusted to describe the usage at that point in history): It may have a somewhat specific meaning in certain contexts, but not in isolation. "Grammar", like "linguist", "weight", or " fruit", is a term that doesn't have a single perfectly defined meaning.
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