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grammar in English:

1. sentence sentence


If you want to sound like a native speaker, you must be willing to practice saying the same sentence over and over in the same way that banjo players practice the same phrase over and over until they can play it correctly and at the desired tempo.
When writing a sentence, generally you start with a capital letter and finish with a period (.), an exclamation mark (!), or a question mark (?).
1. to pass a sentence / 2. Ted was convicted and served his sentence. / 3. For these crimes I sentence myself to death.
An inspired sentence?
When writing a story, it is advisable to write a short, simple sentence after some more descriptive sentences
The "predicate" is that part that shows the action in the sentence. In Japanese it would be the part that ends in "da", "suru", etc.
The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.
I've added an alternative sentence and I've tagged it as 'old fashioned'. What more do you want, blood?
It would be appreciated if you also went to the website to post a comment on that sentence, to indicate it doesn't sound natural and should be improved.
The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
Walakum-us-Salam, Al-Sayib! Dima replied, but raised the volume on his phone this time, so as to avoid making this a duplicate sentence. "What are you up to these days?"
Translate a sentence several times from one language to another and you'll find yourself with something totally different from the original.
M insults D - the Tatoeba database is one sentence better. D insults M - the Tatoeba database is one sentence better. D and M are even, and everyone else wins.
We need to distinguish what a sentence could mean from what it actually does mean when used by one particular speaker on one particular occasion.

2. grammatical


The teacher pointed out the grammatical errors made by the students.
He made a few grammatical mistakes.
He made many grammatical mistakes in his composition.
This is a common grammatical mistake
The grammatical form employed here is the present progressive.
This e-zine is for those who, unswayed by the cajolery of the modern language industry, firmly trust that the traditional learning method of grammatical analysis is the way to go.
Strictly speaking, this sentence is not grammatical.
If there existed a market for sentences, our grammatical speculations would suddenly make sense.
You should try to produce grammatical sentences.
When writing for a German newspaper, every few sentences you should replace some grammatical case with a dative, or a noun with its English translation, to make your article linguistically more interesting.
There are many people in the world studying English, so English people are used to learners' non-standard accents, their grammatical errors and so on.
There are grammatical principles involved.
Apple is a countable noun, so it makes grammatical sense to have five apples.
At first there will be many unfamiliar words and grammatical forms, but you don't have to be afraid.
Although this sentence has no grammatical mistakes, I think it would practically never be used.

English word "grammar"(grammatical) occurs in sets:

Opposites and Suffixes

3. structure of a language