grammatical rule

1. 1.

   a linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances

   Synonymsrule of grammar

   Broaderrule

   Narrowertransformation

Questions about grammatical rule

What does grammatical rule mean?

grammatical rule means "a linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances".

What is another word for grammatical rule?

Close synonyms include rule of grammar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grammatical rule a common word?

grammatical rule is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.