Hurricane Charley: August 13, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. 1:00 pm: Hurricane Charley continues to move northeast towards Charlotte and Lee counties. The eye is getting smaller and the winds are strengthening to around 120 to 125 mph. Residents are encouraged to make last minute preparations to protect themselves.
In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology, syntax, and phonology, often complemented by phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics.
The word grammar tends to have two very different definitions. The first is the one given by linguists, the people who study language scientifically. They define grammar as the way speakers of a language assemble words to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. This understanding of grammar is concerned not with how people are supposed to use language but with how they actually do use language. The second is the popular definition, the one that most of us probably learned in school: a collection of perceived rules about the right and wrong way to use language.