GRAMMAR in a Sentence

Learn GRAMMAR from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For GRAMMAR, below is one of 37 sentences:
But Vassily Lukitch was thinking of nothing but the necessity of learning the grammar lesson for the teacher, who was coming at two.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRAMMAR
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grammar
 n.  the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  But Wells must know the right answer for he was in third of grammar.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  He was a fellow out of the third of grammar and, while Stephen was undressing, he asked Brother Michael to bring him a round of buttered toast.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  He shook the poker gravely and nodded his head at the fellow out of third of grammar.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  Then Brother Michael went away and after a while the fellow out of third of grammar turned in towards the wall and fell asleep.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  Then Brother Michael was going away and the fellow out of the third of grammar told him to be sure and come back and tell him all the news in the paper.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  The fellows seemed to him to have grown smaller: that was because a sprinter had knocked him down the day before, a fellow out of second of grammar.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  And every fellow had said that it was unfair, even the fellow out of second of grammar who had said that about the senate and the Roman people.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  True, I know the grammar and the words, but yet I know not how to speak them.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  Your German grammar is on the table.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In SECOND ACT
10  Perhaps it is a grammar, perhaps a history, or geography.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
11  The new master came from a grammar school; and before he entered on his duties, dined in the parlour one day, to be introduced to Steerforth.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
12  But Vassily Lukitch was thinking of nothing but the necessity of learning the grammar lesson for the teacher, who was coming at two.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 26
13  Their family had more money, more horses, more slaves than any one else in the County, but the boys had less grammar than most of their poor Cracker neighbors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  Oh, she used awful grammar but I could see she was trying so hard to be elegant, poor thing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  Of course, Will's always going to look like a Cracker and marriage won't improve his grammar any.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Each unit of the course book focuses on a different grammar point.
2  This grammar book is suitable both for classroom use and for independent study.
3  The totality of English grammar is too great to be studied in detail.
4  I'm trying to improve my grammar.
5  Her knowledge of English grammar is very extensive.
6  Let me make it clear that I am not advocating the return to the traditional grammar — translation method.
7  I'm writing a grammar of modern English.
8  Most of the students have a sound understanding of English grammar.
9  He wrote a paper on grammar.
10  He was known for his poor grammar and punctuation.
11  In answering these questions, it is important to recall the distinction made earlier between prescriptive and descriptive grammar.
12  The relationship between grammar and lexis Grammar, then, can be seen as a resource for the adaptation of lexis.
13  The grammar guide falls between two stools - it's too difficult for a beginner but not detailed enough for an advanced student.
14  I found German grammar to be very difficult.
15  No grammar book is more popular than this one with senior high school students.