Definition of grammatical category Grammatical category
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What does grammatical category mean?
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| grammatical category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties | ||
| syntactic category | ||
| category, class, family a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme | ||
| grammar the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) | ||
| grammatical case, case a portable container for carrying several objects; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage" | ||
| form class, part of speech, word class one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context | ||
| number an item of merchandise offered for sale; "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number" | ||
| person a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" | ||
| grammatical gender, gender a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness | ||
| tense a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | ||
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