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grammar

(Encyclopedia) grammar, description of the structure of a language, consisting of the sounds (see phonology); the meaningful combinations of these sounds into words or parts of words, called…

Brewer's: Grammar

Zenodotos invented the terms singular, plural, and dual. The scholars of Alexandria and of the rival academy of Pergamos were the first to distinguish language into parts of speech, and to…

Grammar & Spelling

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Brewer's: Sentences

(3 syl.). The four books of Sentences, by Pierre Lombard, the foundation of scholastic theology of the middle period. (See Schoolmen.) Master of the Sentences. Pierre Lombard, schoolman…

Writing Skills

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Murray, Lindley

(Encyclopedia) Murray, Lindley, 1745–1826, American grammarian, b. Pennsylvania. Murray practiced law until the Revolution, during which he acquired a fortune, and in 1784 went to live in England. A…

syntax

(Encyclopedia) syntax: see grammar.

morpheme

(Encyclopedia) morpheme: see grammar.