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Grammar

The rules governing a language's structure.

The Greek roots

γράμμα
grámma
letter, something written

Literally: the art of letters

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The story of the word

Grammatikḗ téchnē was 'the art of letters'. The same grámma writes itself into diagram, telegram, and program.

The same roots elsewhere

Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.

In a sentence

A single comma changed the sentence's grammar.

Built on the same root

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