grand jury
- n a jury to inquire into accusations of crime and to evaluate the grounds for indictments
grammarian
- n a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax
grammatical case
- n nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
grammatical category
- n (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
grammatical constituent
- n (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
grammatical construction
- n a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
grammatical gender
- n a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
grammatical meaning
- n the meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form
grammatical rule
- n a linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances