formal grammar
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformalandgrammar
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formal
adjective
uk/ˈfɔː.məl/us/ˈfɔːr.məl/
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grammar
noun
uk/ˈɡræm.ər/us/ˈɡræm.ɚ/
(the study or use of) the rules about how words change their form and combine with other words to ...
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(Definition offormalandgrammarfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In fact, their analysis is suspect because they present aformalgrammarin which meanings of auxiliaries, and generalizations across such meanings, play no role.
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The parser uses a complexformalgrammarto analyse each unit at the word, phrase and clause level.
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Such aformalgrammarhas never been developed before.
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However, it is difficult to see how such optionality could be incorporated into aformalgrammar.
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The committee is right to reject a return toformalgrammarlessons.
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When, aboutfiftyyears ago, children were taughtformalgrammar, they were taught to classify sentences into "simple", "compound" and "complex".
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Clearly, words must be stored in memory, while complex units are assembled by some mental analogue of aformalgrammar.
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And, if that is the case, where does that leave our assumption of that divide's existence informalgrammar?
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Following recent evidence of the successful use of grammatical rules in communicative and bilingual language teaching, this paper discusses the appropriate use offormalgrammarwithin the communicative teaching model.
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Aformalgrammarfor codeswitching.
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The results show that there is little evidence to indicate that the teaching offormalgrammaris effective and that teaching sentence-combining has a more positive effect.
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The gap that has been left by the decline informalgrammarteaching must be filled.
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There is no evidence that teachingformalgrammarever improved language skills.
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It is a program that takes a description of aformalgrammarof a specific programming language and produces a parser for that language.
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The essays are produced from aformalgrammardefined by a recursive transition network.
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The parser is mechanically generated from aformalgrammarfor the language.
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They consider instead that it has more to do with the process of structuring human thought (see alsoformalgrammar).
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However, from the standpoint offormalgrammarthe less commonly used planktic is more strictly the correct adjective.
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Aformalgrammaris a set of rules for rewriting strings, along with a start symbol from which rewriting starts.
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