RULE OF GRAMMAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rule of grammar mean? 

• RULE OF GRAMMAR (noun)
  The noun RULE OF GRAMMAR has 1 sense:

1. a linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances

  Familiarity information: RULE OF GRAMMAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RULE OF GRAMMAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

grammatical rule; rule of grammar

Hypernyms ("rule of grammar" 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 "rule of grammar"):

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