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Maybe one day the old pronoun whom will kick the grammatical bucket.—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026 And as Schertzer pointed out, there were too many students, too many pages to go through to make all those grammatical edits.—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026 Word endings did a lot more grammatical work, and verbs followed more complicated patterns.—Valerie M. Fridland, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026 The text might contain grammatical and spelling errors.—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 23 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for grammatical
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borrowed from Middle French and Late Latin; Middle French grammaticale, borrowed from Late Latin grammaticālis, from Latin grammaticagrammar + -ālis-al entry 1