"grammatical category" meaning in English

See grammatical category in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: grammatical categories [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} grammatical category (plural grammatical categories)
  1. (linguistics) Part of speech. Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-grammatical_category-en-noun-~AfvViic Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Inflected forms

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          "name": "Linguistics",
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            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
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            "Fundamental"
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          "ref": "2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107:",
          "text": "First, the AWL lacks part-of-speech information so does not allow users to see which vocabulary can be used for multiple grammatical categories nor which grammatical category is more frequent.",
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