Obey vs Grammaticalness - What's the difference?
obey | grammaticalness |
To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
To do as one is told.
(obsolete) To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iv:
(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:
As a verb obey
is to do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.As a noun grammaticalness is
the state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.obey
English
Verb
(en verb)- They were all taught by Triton, to obay / To the long raynes, at her commaundement [...].
Antonyms
* disobey * defy * rebel * resist * violate (especially rules )External links
* * 1000 English basic wordsgrammaticalness
English
Noun
(-)- There appear to be at least two distinct ways to assign levels of grammaticalness to deviant sentences.