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Grammar in sentence

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She had to translate it into English at her grammar school.
So the king of England, Alfred the Great, will use a vocabulary and grammar that is quite different from the king of hip hop, Jay-Z.
Here's how to relax your anxieties, if you have them: Understand that mathematics is a language ruled like other verbal languages, or like verbal language generally, by its own grammar and system of logic.
Here, I'm explaining how a computer uses the grammar of English to parse sentences, and here, there's a pause and the student has to reflect, understand what's going on and check the right boxes before they can continue.
It has a kind of a grammar.
When I hear that story, I always imagine the folks from the Great Migration rolling over in their graves, because you can imagine that they didn't sacrifice moving from the South to the North to create a better life for their families, only to see their great-grandchildren return to an agrarian lifestyle, especially in a city where they came with little less than a high school education or even a grammar school education and were able to afford the basic elements of the American dream: steady work and a home that they owned.
If I have a painting of a facade, I can consider it's not just that particular building, but probably it also shares the same grammar of buildings where we lost any information.
Now, this is what we call grammar.
And grammar is incredibly powerful, because grammar is this one component of language which takes this finite vocabulary that all of us have and allows us to convey an infinite amount of information, an infinite amount of ideas.
And so after I developed Avaz, I worried for a very long time about how I could give grammar to children with autism.
She had been able to get that child to communicate an idea to her without grammar.
And by putting these two pieces together, the representation and the engine, I was able to create an app, a technology for children with autism, that not only gives them words but also gives them grammar.
An inbound message had to do three things: had to be written in complete sentences and with good grammar; it had to reference something in my profile, so I know it's not a copy-and-paste situation; and it had to avoid all sexual content.
And those linguists, please pardon the grammar, because I've not looked at it in the last 10 years.
We have a grammar that suggests that's who we are; that we are sovereign subjects in nature, the bee as well as me.
But that day, it occurred to me: what if that grammar is nothing more than a self-serving conceit?
But the word "grammar," actually, there are two kinds of grammar.
There's the kind of grammar that lives inside your brain, and if you're a native speaker of a language or a good speaker of a language, it's the unconscious rules that you follow when you speak that language.
Those are more of the second kind of grammar, which linguists often call usage, as opposed to grammar.
Now, sometimes people use this kind of rules-based grammar to discourage people from making up words.
Many of the prisoners hadn't even completed grammar school.
Any psychologist will tell you that women are better with language and grammar than men.
Here's performance on the standardized grammar test.
So there's a place for music and literature, etc., but also for grammar.
That is, a real language has grammar.
From the point of view of linguistics, grammar is a set of patterns for how words are put together to form phrases or clauses, whether spoken or in writing.
Language purists worked to establish and propagate this standard by detailing a set of rules that reflected the established grammar of their times.
And rules for written grammar were applied to spoken language, as well.
Ultimately, grammar is best thought of as a set of linguistic habits that are constantly being negotiated and reinvented by the entire group of language users.
Others believe it was written by the 13th century philosopher Roger Bacon, who attempted to understand the universal laws of grammar, or in the 16th century by the Elizabethan mystic John Dee, who practiced alchemy and divination.
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