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Obey vs Grammaticalness - What's the difference?

obey | grammaticalness |

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)
  • 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:
  • They were all taught by Triton, to obay / To the long raynes, at her commaundement [...].

    Antonyms

    * disobey * defy * rebel * resist * violate (especially rules )

    grammaticalness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (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:
  • There appear to be at least two distinct ways to assign levels of grammaticalness to deviant sentences.

    Synonyms

    *grammaticality

    References

    *Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., 1989. ''See "grammatical". *Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary'', 1987-1996. ''See "grammaticality".