Sentence examples for formal grammar from inspiring English sources
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A precise mathematical description of a formal language, consisting of terminal symbols, nonterminal symbols, a nonterminal symbol serving as start symbol, and a set of production rules that control the expansion of nonterminal symbols into strings consisting of both terminal and nonterminal symbols.
The Conservative-led government is currently introducing a formal grammar and punctuation examination at age 11 in British schools.
Writers have to transcend their teachers, but their instructors should also teach them less formal grammar and usage, endorsed as a tool of writing.
I noticed it first when I left school, and tried to learn another language quickly: those with good, formal grammar didn't struggle as I did.
Sadly, many traditional textbooks still teach Portuguese this way including to native speakers in Brazil.All languages change, but as they do, some language groups are more willing to update the formal grammar books than others.
MARGARET DORIA Brooklyn, April 23 , 2012To the Editor: The problem with computers grading student writing samples is not the machine; it's what it rewards: strictly formal grammar and schoolteacher prose.
With Xtext you define your language using a formal grammar specification.
Of a much less controversial nature is the extensive and fruitful use of recursive function theory and related areas of logic in formal grammars and in the formal models of language users.
The usage of formal grammars for modelling man-made objects has gained increasing interest in the last few years.
The rules for chemical nomenclature are encoded as formal grammars, e.g. alkaneStem : 'meth' | 'eth' | 'prop' …. alkane: alkaneStem 'ane'ane
Grammar-based methods apply formal grammars to facade images splitting these into increasingly smaller regions until the facade is decomposed into its elements.
Installation zone generating is carried out by an approach that is inspired by formal grammars (Hopcroft et al. 2006): The generating ruleset encodes domain knowledge from technical standards.
