单词 | grammar |
释义 | grammar n.   1. a the study or rules of a language's inflections or other means of showing the relation between words, including its phonetic system. b a body of form and usages in a specified language (Latin grammar).   2. a person's manner or quality of observance or application of the rules of grammar (bad grammar).   3. a book on grammar.   4. the elements or rudiments of an art or science.   5. Brit. colloq. = grammar school. Phrases and idioms grammar school 1 Brit. esp. hist. a selective State secondary school with a mainly academic curriculum.   2. Brit. hist. a school founded in or before the 16th c. for teaching Latin, later becoming a secondary school teaching academic subjects.   3. US a school intermediate between primary and high school. Derivatives grammarless adj. Etymology: ME f. AF gramere, OF gramaire f. L grammatica f. Gk grammatike (tekhne) (art) of letters f. gramma -atos letter of the alphabet |
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