grammatical
adj/ɡɹəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/
Etymology From Middle French grammatical, from Latin grammaticālis.
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Not breaching any constraints of the grammar, or morpho-syntax, of the relevant language.
- Your writing in English is not grammatical enough for publication, so we will hire an editor to fix it where necessary while preserving the intended meaning.
- These unidiomatic utterances are easily comprehensible but are not grammatical.
1 more example
- [Otto] Jespersen, a language professor known for his expertise in syntax and language development, stated that headlinese is not really grammatical writing.2021 May 29, Richard Nordquist, “What Is Headlinese?”, in ThoughtCo, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2021:
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Of or pertaining to grammar.
- The writing was measured for both grammatical complexity and accuracy factors.
- Derived terms
25 terms
antegrammatical, antigrammatical, cryptogrammatical, grammatical alternation, grammatical aspect, grammatical case, grammatical category, grammatical gender, grammaticality, grammaticalization, grammaticalize, grammatically, grammatical mood, grammaticalness, grammatical person, grammatical word, historical-grammatical, historico-grammatical, hypergrammatical, lexicogrammatical, metagrammatical, neogrammatical, nongrammatical, paragrammatical, subgrammatical