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GRAMMATICAL RULE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances
Synonyms:
grammatical rule; rule of grammar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)