grammatical rule

/grəˌmædəkəl rul/
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Other forms: grammatical rules

Definitions of grammatical rule
  1. noun
    a linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances
    synonyms: rule of grammar
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    types:
    transformation
    a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure
    type of:
    linguistic rule, rule
    (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice
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