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# grammatical

adjective (grammatical)

«grammatical» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Correct according to the rules of grammar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#m1)
2. To do with grammar: «a grammatical mistake». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#m2)

### In the lessons

In English lessons: «Is this sentence grammatical?» A grammatical error is a mistake like «they was». Teachers mark grammatical mistakes in writing.

### Examples

- This sentence is not grammatical. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x1)
- Correct the grammatical mistakes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x2)
- "We was late" is not grammatical in standard English. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x3)
- Her writing is clear and grammatical. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x4)
- Grammatical rules can be tricky. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x5)
- Find the grammatical error in each line. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/#x6)

### Note

Opposite: ungrammatical. Adverb: grammatically. Some dialect forms (like «we was») are normal in speech in some places but not in standard written English.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Modern translators look closely at the Hebrew grammar of Sefer Yetzirah to work out what its odd phrases, such as the letters called mothers, mean. In the primary lessons: In English lessons: «Is this sentence grammatical?» A grammatical error is a mistake like «they was». Teachers mark grammatical mistakes in writing.

### Examples

- I base it off an interpretation of the SY’s internal structure, the semantic properties of the root ספ״ר SPR, and the SY’s general grammatical inventiveness. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grammatical/#x1)
- In usual Hebrew grammatical terminology, the term ‘mothers’ is reserved for the אִמּוֹת קְרִיאָה immot qeriʼah, ‘mothers of reading’ (whence Latin matres lectionis), the letters אהו״י Alef-Heh-Waw-Yod which can serve to represent either consonants or vowels. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grammatical/#x2)

### Note

Opposite: ungrammatical. Adverb: grammatically. Some dialect forms (like «we was») are normal in speech in some places but not in standard written English.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «grammatical» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grammatical/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grammatical» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/grammatical.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «grammatical» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/grammatical/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grammatical» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/grammatical.html) on Mova free.