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Grammar vs. Spelling — What's the Difference?

Grammar vs. Spelling — What's the Difference?

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Grammar

In linguistics, the grammar (from Ancient Greek γραμματική grammatikḗ) of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes domains such as phonology, morphology, and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics.

Spelling

Spelling is a set of conventions that regulate the way of using graphemes (writing system) to represent a language in its written form. In other words, spelling is the rendering of speech sound (phoneme) into writing (grapheme).

Grammar

The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.

Spelling

The forming of words with letters in an accepted order; orthography.

Grammar

The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history.
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Spelling

The art or study of orthography.

Grammar

The system of inflections, syntax, and word formation of a language.

Spelling

The way in which a word is spelled.

Grammar

The system of rules implicit in a language, viewed as a mechanism for generating all sentences possible in that language.

Spelling

A person's ability to spell words
A writer plagued by bad spelling.

Grammar

A normative or prescriptive set of rules setting forth the current standard of usage for pedagogical or reference purposes.

Spelling

Present participle of spell

Grammar

Writing or speech judged with regard to such a set of rules.

Spelling

(uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.

Grammar

A book containing the morphologic, syntactic, and semantic rules for a specific language.

Spelling

(uncountable) The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.

Grammar

The basic principles of an area of knowledge
The grammar of music.

Spelling

(countable) A specific spelling of a word.

Grammar

A book dealing with such principles.

Spelling

A spelling test or spelling bee.

Grammar

A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.

Spelling

(music) A choice of notation among enharmonic equivalents for the same pitch.

Grammar

The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).

Spelling

The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.

Grammar

A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.

Spelling

Of or pertaining to spelling.

Grammar

(computing theory) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.

Spelling

Forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage

Grammar

Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.

Grammar

(computing theory) A formal system defining a formal language

Grammar

The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.

Grammar

A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.
A grammar of geography

Grammar

(UK) A grammar school.

Grammar

To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

Grammar

The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use and application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.

Grammar

The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.
The original bad grammar and bad spelling.

Grammar

A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.

Grammar

Treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography.
When any town shall increase to the number of a hundredfamilies or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

Grammar

To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

Grammar

Studies of the formation of basic linguistic units

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