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gram·mat·i·cal

grammatical

 
 
pronunciation:
gr mae tih kl
features:
Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
part of speech: adjective
definition 1: of or relating to grammar.
definition 2: conforming to the conventions and rules of grammar.
Word Combinations  About this feature
(adj.)grammatical + adverb thus
(adj.)grammatical + noun agreement, ambiguity, category, characteristic, competence, construction, convention, correctness, distinction, error, exercise, feature, form, function, gender, hiatuses, item, language, marker, mistake, morpheme, pattern, person, punctuation, reading, relation, rule, sentence, specification, spelling, structure, subject, theory, tie, understanding, unit, usage, variation [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: grammatically (adv.), grammaticalness (n.)
Word Parts  About this feature
The word grammatical contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual Latin adjective-forming suffix that means pertaining to
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The suffix -al2, -ial attaches primarily to nouns (national , environmental ) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots (final , capital , comical ) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.