Define grammar and Chomsky hierarchy.

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1. Grammar: In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules that governs the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. It includes syntax (the arrangement of words to form sentences), morphology (the study of the form of words), and phonology (the study of sounds). Grammar is the system of a language and is the method to structure sentences.

2. Chomsky Hierarchy: The Chomsky hierarchy, proposed by Noam Chomsky, is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. This hierarchy allows linguists to understand the complexity of languages and their grammars. The hierarchy, from least to most restrictive, includes the following types of grammars:

   • Type 0: Unrestricted grammars, which include all formal grammars.
   • Type 1: Context-sensitive grammars, where the left-hand side of any production rule may be replaced by the right-hand side in a context where it makes sense.
   • Type 2: Context-free grammars, where the left-hand side of any production rule can be replaced by the right-hand side in any context.
   • Type 3: Regular grammars, which are the most restrictive and are limited to producing regular languages.

Each of these types of grammars corresponds to a specific type of automaton that can recognize the language generated by that grammar. For example, Type 3 regular grammars correspond to finite automata, Type 2 context-free grammars correspond to pushdown automata, Type 1 context-sensitive grammars correspond to linear-bounded automata, and Type 0 unrestricted grammars correspond to Turing machines.