Sentence examples for grammatical matters from inspiring English sources

Although Levi models this type of supposition in his book, he follows Dudman on grammatical matters and therefore does not believe that this type of consensus supposition correlates perfectly with the use of the indicative mood in English.

Others had put much weight on such grammatical matters; for example, Ryle had concluded from "enjoy" being a transitive verb, requiring an object, that enjoyment cannot exist on its own, as a matter of conceptual necessity (1954a, p. 61).

"I mean, by that logic you could say that linguists think grammatical agreement matters but speakers don't give a damn.

Sol Steinmetz, a lexicographer, author and tenured member of Olbom (n., abbrev., < On Language's Board of Octogenarian Mentors), whose opinions on matters semantical, grammatical and etymological were widely sought by the news media, died on Oct. 13 in Manhattan.

This distinction is not simply a matter of grammatical function.

But others have developed interpretations that do not consider Aristotle to have arrived at his categories by considering linguistic matters such as grammatical structure or the questions we may ask.

In the matter of the grammatical relevance of word order, the absence of case inflections in nouns, and the use of verbal auxiliaries instead of single word tense forms, French is more like English, a distant cousin within the Indo-European family, than it is like Latin, its immediate progenitor (compare French j'ai donné, English I have given, Latin dedī).

The linguistic nativist's theory views our acquisition of grammatical competence as a simple matter — one that can be described at one level of explanation, and in terms of a single kind of process.

More distracting, however, is the occasionally imperfect English; although the reader can usually determine the author's intent, grammatical errors can make already abstruse subject matter even more difficult to comprehend.

"Grammatical errors, spelling mistakes doesn't matter that much," he went on to say.

Certainly this grammatical trait, like most, is a matter of chance — some languages drift into marking things that others don't.