Examples of Grammatical and Lexical Sentences and Their Meanings

Grammatical and lexical words, may sound a bit foreign to our ears. Therefore, in this article, we will explain the meaning, understanding, and examples of grammatical and lexical sentences.

Grammatical Sentences

According to the Big Dictionary Language Indonesia (2008: 461), grammatically is defined according to grammar. Where the meaning of the word undergoes a process of affixation, reduplication, composition, or sentenceization. The meaning of grammatical itself is a word that changes according to the context (with regard to the situation, namely the place, time, and environment of language use) of the wearer.

Based on the grammatical meaning above, then a grammatical sentence is a sentence whose meaning changes due to experience the process of affixing, repetition or compounding that is adjusted according to grammar and is bound by context the user.

Examples of Grammatical Sentences

1. Drink, drink, drinker (grammatical meaning). Example:
   • Police confiscated several crates of liquor from in that shop.
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   • Morning, noon, night, he just sits and drinks.
   • Everyone in this village knows that he is a drinker.
2. Official house, funeral home, housing, housing (grammatical meaning). Example:
   • Since being elected regent in another city, he now lives in the official residence.
   • Every day the funeral home was never empty of visitors.
   • In recent months the company has laid off dozens of employees.
   • The government is intensively building housing for the lower middle class.
3. Teacher, motherhood, mothers (grammatical meaning). Example:
   • The woman who passed me at the school gate this morning turned out to be our new teacher.
   • Even though she has given birth to two children, her motherly attitude is not visible at all.
   • Today the puskesmas looks crowded with the presence of PKK women.
4. Eat, eat, lunch (grammatical meaning). Example:
   • His first salary was spent on eating out with his workmates.
   • Don't waste food, many of our brothers and sisters are starving out there.
   • Every break, warteg is the place of choice for lunch.
5. Cars, ambulances, automobiles (grammatical meaning). Example:
   • My sister saved her pocket money to buy her favorite car.
   • The victim of the traffic accident this afternoon was taken by ambulance to the nearest hospital.
   • My sister aspires to open her own car when she graduates from college.

Sentence Lexical

Lexical is meaning that is fixed. Lexical Words, According to the Big Language Dictionary Indonesia (2008: 805) is related to word, lexeme, or vocabulary. Lexical (leksem), also means the real or actual meaning.

Lexical sentences are sentences whose actual meanings are fixed and not tied to the context of the sentence (stand alone).

Example of Lexical Sentence

1. Every time I wake up, my mother tells me to drink a glass of warm water. (drink = lexical meaning)
2. This weekend, our family and I spent time at home. (house = lexical meaning)
3. Since childhood, he has lost the figure of a mother. (mother = lexical meaning)
4. See! It was only 8:00 in the morning, he had already eaten three times. (eat = lexical meaning)
5. Dad was late for work this morning, because his car broke down. (car=lexical meaning)

Thus an explanation of the meaning, understanding and examples of grammatical and lexical sentences and their meanings. May be useful.