GRAMMATICAL RULE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances

Synonyms:

grammatical rule; rule of grammar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("grammatical rule" is a kind of...):

linguistic rule; rule ((linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grammatical rule"):

transformation (a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure)

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