one of the typical ways in which a language puts words together to make sentences. For example, article plus adjective plus noun (a big house) is a pattern of English, but article plus noun plus adjective (a house big) is not.
Synonyms and related words
General grammatical and linguistic terms
cognitive grammar
concordance
conversation analysis
Synonyms and related words
The grammatical behaviour of words
agreement
agree with
backshift
grammar pattern
noun countable linguistics
US /ˈɡræmər ˌpætərn/
Word Forms
singular
grammar pattern
plural
grammar patterns
DEFINITIONS1
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one of the typical ways in which a language puts words together to make sentences. For example, article plus adjective plus noun (a big house) is a pattern of English, but article plus noun plus adjective (a house big) is not.