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"Grammarian" in a Sentence (5 examples)
I'd like to ask a grammarian, isn't it possible to think of 'be + participle' like you do V C and such?
He learnt for the first time that there was no law of transmutation, as in his innocence he had supposed (there was, in some degree, but the grammarian did not recognize it), but that every word in both Latin and Greek was to be individually committed to memory at the cost of years of plodding.
Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.
Huddleston and Pullum are well-known grammarians of the 21st century.
They spent hours disabusing the misinformed rants of various armchair grammarians.
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