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RULE OF GRAMMAR

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Dictionary entry overview: What does rule of grammar mean?

• RULE OF GRAMMAR (noun)
The noun RULE OF GRAMMAR has 1 sense:

1. a linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances

Familiarity information: RULE OF GRAMMAR used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RULE OF GRAMMAR (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

grammatical rule; rule of grammar

Hypernyms ("rule of grammar" is a kind of...):

linguistic rule; rule ((linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rule of grammar"):

transformation (a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure)

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