grammatical rule

1. There is no grammatical rule which do not have exception.
   条条语法规则都有例外。（没有一条语法规则没有例外的。）
2. Multi-word units are dynamic and open to many choices of lexis in a specific grammatical structure and form a unity of semantic meaning, grammatical rule and pragmatic context.
   多词单位在一定的语法结构内可供词语选择的空间很大，具有开放性和动态性，形成了语义、语法和语境的结合体；
3. Mary seems as though she understands the grammatical rule.
   玛丽看起来好像明白了这一语法规则。
4. Ellipsis is not only a grammatical rule, but also a pragmatic strategy.
   省略不仅是一种语法原则，它更是一种语用策略。
5. The author of this paper attempts to discuss reduction as a grammatical rule in comparative clauses and analyse its syntactic contruction through its characteristic of recoverability and the negation therein.
   本文试图论述缩约这一语法原则在非等量比较结构中运用后产生的不同缩约类型，并根据缩约的还原性特点分析其句法结构及非等量比较结构中的否定现象。
6. This method used the Grammatical Knowledge-base of Contemporary Chinese as knowledge source. For no or low-frequency ambiguous words in the corpus, the knowledge of disambiguation come from the attribute property in the Grammatical Knowledge-base, is a method which combined the statistics with the rule.
   该方法利用《现代汉语语法信息词典》作为知识源，对于语料库中未出现或出现频率低的歧义词，通过词典中的属性特征获取消歧知识，是一种统计与规则相结合的方法。
7. Besides, as for most of English learners, the usage of English construction v-ing is complex and flexible, which brings forth a certain blockage and confusion in acquisition of this grammatical rule according to traditional grammar.
   此外，对于大多数英语学习者来说，英语v-ing结构的用法复杂多变，根据传统语法来习得这一语言现象存在着一定的障碍和困惑。

noun

1. a linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances

   Synonym:    rule of grammar