Sentence examples for grammatical rule from inspiring English sources

In addition, Schlick conceived of a second type of grammatical rule, which he called 'application-rules' (Anwendungsregeln), regulating the use of expressions in connection with, or application to, observable extra-linguistic situations.

If you haven't understood exactly what a particular word means or how a grammatical rule works, you are likely to be, not off, but just plain wrong.

This narrow notion of grammar has amounted to a peculiar snobbery: the more obscure and seemingly complex the grammatical rule, the more we tend to assert its importance and to esteem those who have managed to master it.

Actually, I think that when an animal is in a cage or an enclosure, then the grammatical rule for game – that it shall always be referred to in the singular, however many there are – no longer applies.

After all, you can spell every word in the dictionary and know every grammatical rule in the world, but this does not make you a writer, nor does it give you an imagination; an imagination is something quite unique to every individual and it needs to be treasured.

The transformational model has also been adapted for another field of psycholinguistics, the processing and comprehension of speech; early experiments in this area suggested, for example, that passive sentences took longer to process than their active counterparts because an extra grammatical rule was necessary to produce the passive sentence.

All the things we learned to say were grammatically correct, but we were never taught any formal grammatical rules.

Sumerian inscriptions give grammatical rules in proverbial form.

The system required no programming of grammatical rules or syntax.

It's no fun prissily adhering to grammatical rules if it's mandatory.

The novel breaks grammatical rules, tenses skip around, and the narrator seems increasingly unhinged.