grammatically
grammatically adverb: in a grammatical manner.
Adverb
grammatically (comparative more grammatically, superlative most grammatically)
- In a grammatical manner.
- Concerning grammar.
- For example, once the child is able to parse (i.e. grammatically analyse) an adult utterance such as Help Daddy and knows that it contains a verb phrase comprising the head verb help and its complement Daddy, then (on the assumption that the language faculty specifies that all heads of a given type...2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the structure of English, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, §1.7, page 23
Examples of grammatically in a sentence
- Grammatically, Hebrew is a gendered language because every noun is either masculine or feminine.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
- English's use of the French loanword "RSVP" often leaves it grammatically unanalyzed, yielding "please RSVP", which is venially redundant (lit. "please please respond").
Forms of grammatically
| comparative | more grammatically |
|---|---|
| superlative | most grammatically |
Origin of grammatically
From grammatical + -ly.
Words formed from grammatically
Questions about grammatically
- What does grammatically mean?
- Grammatically means in a grammatical manner.
- What part of speech is grammatically?
- Grammatically is an adverb.
Words near grammatically in the dictionary
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