present participle of grammarize

plural of grammarism

To create a grammar for (a language); to describe the grammar of. / (more generally) To codify; to analyze and describe. / (transitive) To correct the grammar of (a body of speech or text)

(music) A musical grammar which arises spontaneously in a musical culture (as opposed to an artificial grammar).

(music) consciously employed musical grammar.

(archaic) A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.

(computing) A software application, like a spellchecker, that attempts to verify the grammar in a document.

plural of formal grammar

(computer science) A precise mathematical description of a formal language, consisting of terminal symbols, nonterminal symbols, a nonterminal symbol serving as start symbol, and a set of production rules that control the expansion of nonterminal symbols into strings consisting of both terminal and nonterminal symbols.

(slang, idiomatic, potentially offensive, humorous, see usage note at Nazi) A person who habitually corrects or criticizes the language usage of others.