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ungrammatical

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[ UK /ʌnɡɹɐmˈætɪkə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage

How To Use ungrammatical In A Sentence

  • They tell their own story, simply—sometimes ungrammatically and illiterately, but nevertheless irresistibly. Cries of Despair and Society’s Problems
  • The rustic maiden, slow and sweet in ungrammatical speech, who helps plant corn by day, and makes picturesque the interior of the cabin in the glare of "lightwood" torches by night; turns men's heads and wins children's hearts in Charles Egbert Craddock's tale, _The Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
  • He's identifying the ungrammatical strings that the grammar should not describe; he's doing modern empirical synchronic syntax.
  • They tell their own story, simply; sometimes ungrammatically and illiterately, but nevertheless irresistibly.
  • By ‘abnormal’ I mean that there is nothing ungrammatical, but what has been said violates the rules governing communicative competence.
  • But there would appear to be an infinite number of both grammatical and ungrammatical sentences.
  • Many also believe that they can rely on their own introspection to provide samples of clearly grammatical and clearly ungrammatical sentences that would be adequate for compiling and testing the rules.
  • Identification takes place by noticing subtle differences between grammatical and ungrammatical utterances.
  • She was told that sentences like the one you are now reading are ungrammatical.
  • The literal English translation is simply ungrammatical, and most readers would find it incoherent.
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