What is grammar?

Right at the beginning of our new series on learning the grammar of a foreign language, we want to give you this helpful tip:

It will always be worthwhile for you if you first deal with grammar as a general term before you actually deal with the grammar of the language you want to learn.

If you think about grammar, you will quickly see the challenges, problems and difficulties you face when learning the grammar of a new language.

Therefore we ask you now: How would you define grammar??

Let’s start with an examination of the word grammar.