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    DEFINITION OF GRAMMAR BASED FROM DIFFERENT AUTHORS

    Noam Chomsky

    -Generative grammar is a theory of grammar that holds the human language is shaped by a set of
    basic principles that are part of the human brain. This “universal grammar”, according to linguist like
    Chomsky comes from our innate language faculty.

    David Crystal

    - Grammar is the study of all the contrast of meaning that is possible to make within the sentence.
    The ‘rules’ of grammar tell us how. By one count, there are some 3,500 such rules in English.

    W. Nelson Francis

    - the set of formal patterns in which the words of language are arranged in order to convey larger
    meanings.

    - the branch of linguistic science which is concerned with the description, analysis, and
    formulation of formal language patterns.

    - linguistic etiquette. Example is the expression, “he ain’t here” is bad grammar.

    Richard Nordquist

    -The word grammar comes from Greek, meaning “craft of letter” which is an apt description. The
    systematic study and description of a language.

    Sandy Chung and Geoff Pullum

    -grammar is simply the collection of principles defining how to put together a sentence.

    Oxford English Dictionary

    -The department of the be study of a language which deals with its flexional forms or other means of
    indicating the relations of word in the sentence, and with the rules of employing these in accordance
    with established usage; usually including also the department which deals with the phonetic system of
    the language and the principles of its representation of writing.

    Trask

    - Narrowly, the part of the structure of a language which includes sentence structure (syntax) and
    word structure (morphology). A particular description of a language, or a book containing it. A linguist
    who specializes in the study of grammar in this sense is a grammarian. Broadly, the entire structure
    of a language, including not only its syntax and morphology but also its phonology and semantics,
    and possibly also its pragmatics.
    Huddleston

    -The term “grammar” is used in the number of different senses. The grammar of a language may be
    understood to be a full description of the form and meaning of the sentence of the language or else it
    may cover only certain, variously delimited, parts of such description. Here we shall use it in one of
    these narrower senses, embracing syntax and morphology.

    Kolln and Funk

    - The term grammar is used in a number of different senses. The grammar of a language may be
    understood to be a full description of the form and meaning of the sentence of the language or else it
    may cover only certain, various delimited, parts of such description. Here we shall use it in one of
    these narrower senses, embracing syntax and morphology

    - The system of rules in our heads. You bring the study of grammar a lifetime of “knowing” how to
    produce sentences. This subconscious, internalized system of rules is your “language competence”

    - The formal description of the rules.

    -The social implications of usage, also known as “linguistic etiquette”. The definition could be called
    the do’s and don’t’s of grammar. This is the definition that people have in mind when they use terms
    like “poor grammar” or “good grammar”.

    Hartwell

    - A set of formal patterns in which the words of a language are arranged to covey larger meaning.

    - The branch of linguistics concerned with the description, analysis, and formulation of a formal
    language pattern.

    - Linguistic etiquette.

    - School grammar, or the names of the part of speech.

    - Grammatical terms used in the interest of teaching writing.

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