My son said the word “grammarically”, and I corrected him that the word is actually “grammatically”. He asked why that’s the case since it’s referencing grammar and not grammat. I could not find the answer via google. Please help.
“Grammar” comes from the Greek word *grammatikē* (which referred to the study of letters or writing). The suffix “-ical” is used in English to turn nouns into adjectives when the noun comes from Greek or Latin. So, “grammatical” is formed to mean “related to grammar.”
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