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📜 Grammar defined

1. Definition

   a. The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.

   b. The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history.

2. Definition

   1. The system of inflections, syntax, and word formation of a language.
   2. The system of rules implicit in a language, viewed as a mechanism for generating all sentences possible in that language.

3. Definition

   1. A normative or prescriptive set of rules setting forth the current standard of usage for pedagogical or reference purposes.
   2. Writing or speech judged with regard to such a set of rules.

4. Definition

   1. A book containing the morphologic, syntactic, and semantic rules for a specific language.

5. Definition

   1. The basic principles of an area of knowledge: the grammar of music.
   2. A book dealing with such principles.

📜 Basic structures

Each word belongs to a particularpart of speech. Understanding what each word is doing or what it represents will help understand what a phrase (intermedia structures) and clause (advanced structures) are doing or what they represent.

🏫 Intermediate structures

A group of words that does not contain a subject and a verb is called Types of Phrases. A phrase is considered an intermediate structure.

💯 Advanced structures

A group of words that contain a subject and a verb are called clauses. A clause is considered an advanced structure.

💯 Discourse

Understanding how a sentence functions within a paragraph relates to written and spoken discourse. Discourse also applies to how a paragraph is functioning within a section, how a subsection is functioning within a section, etc.

📚 Links

Google Books corpora

Online Etymology Dictionary | Origin, history and meaning of English words

English Easy Learning Grammar | Collins Education

📚 Sections

Basic Structures

Advanced Structures

Writing Strategies

Intermediate Structures

Writing Discourse