Grammaticalness vs Grammatical - What's the difference?
grammaticalness | grammatical | Derived terms |
(of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
* 1967', Lawrence E. Marks, "Judgments of '''Grammaticalness of Some English Sentences and Semi-Sentences," ''The American Journal of Psychology , vol. 80, no. 2, p. 196:
(linguistics) Acceptable as a correct sentence or clause as determined by the rules and conventions of the grammar, or morpho-syntax of the language.
Of or pertaining to grammar.
Grammaticalness is a derived term of grammatical.
As a noun grammaticalness
is (of language) the state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.As a adjective grammatical is
(linguistics) acceptable as a correct sentence or clause as determined by the rules and conventions of the grammar, or morpho-syntax of the language.grammaticalness
English
Noun
(-)- There appear to be at least two distinct ways to assign levels of grammaticalness to deviant sentences.
Synonyms
*grammaticalityReferences
*Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., 1989. ''See "grammatical". *Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary'', 1987-1996. ''See "grammaticality".grammatical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Your writing is not grammatical enough for publication.
- My friend used a grammatical textbook to support her argument.