GRAMMATICAL RULE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grammatical rule mean? 

• GRAMMATICAL RULE (noun)
  The noun GRAMMATICAL RULE has 1 sense:

1. a linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAMMATICAL RULE (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 ("grammatical rule" 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 "grammatical rule"):

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