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Definition of transformational grammar noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

transformational grammar

noun

[uncountable] (abbreviation TG) (linguistics)

a type of grammar that describes a language as a system that has a deep structure which changes in particular ways when real sentences are produced

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