How To Use Ungrammatical In A Sentence
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Although written in rather inelegant and sometimes ungrammatical prose, this is an insightful and original work, based on a remarkable range of evidence.
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This is a normal example of syntactic and semantic change in progress, and I'm certainly not about to say that these sentences are ungrammatical.
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Choosing that one would yield a hopelessly ungrammatical result.
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Structural linguists question the existence of a clear-cut distinction between what is grammatical and what is ungrammatical.
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Also in fear, hate and love, which may have pathological expressions such as arachnophobia (Diski's is cured by London Zoo), animal hoarding, or the internet fad for "lolcats": cat photos whose ungrammatical text (we get Genesis chapter one in "lolcat") resembles the dog-speak that Kipling nauseatingly sustains throughout "Thy Servant a Dog".
What I Don't Know About Animals by Jenny Diski – review
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I can really make sense of your ungrammaticality judgment only as an aversion against the constructions excessive uncommonness (use of “whom” + overt relative pronoun in an object relative clause, which also seems to have become sort of uncommon) … Are “the boy to whom I gave the gift” and “the man whom I saw” really that much better for you?
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar
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They tell their own story, simply -- sometimes ungrammatically and illiterately, but nevertheless irresistibly.
Woman and the New Race
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The problem is not that the sentence is ungrammatical, but rather that it doesn't say what I mean.
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Well, in swedish that would be a given – an old and slightly ungrammatical pun on gorilla is "walk bad" sv: "går illa", pronounced gor´illa – and all those funnily broken rocks would make for bad footing indeed.
Gorilla On Mars? | Universe Today
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When America's greatest lexicographer writes me an ungrammatical message on a double-barreled slate, signs it "noeh webstur," and instructs his terrestial to deliver it to me on payment of one cart-wheel dollar, I suspect that there's something sphacelated in the psychological Denmark.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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There's a solemnly ungrammatical but sincere and oddly moving description of Baji Rout's role in the freedom movement that bears quotation.
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They stampeded her on the Calle Rivera and unceremoniously held up Mr. North's impressive car before the hotel, while Jim Baggott, in an ancient silk hat and bibulously primed for the occasion, read an ungrammatical but fervent valediction.
The Fifth Ace
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And although I did a bit of a double-take, I soon got the idea of what was meant by that stunningly ungrammatical sleeps obedience - with its intransitive verb assigned a direct object in defiance of all syntactic decency.
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I don't believe that these two examples are ungrammatical, nor do I think that they would be improved stylistically by replacing the conjunctive contrast with a than phrase.
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The second problem with behavioral theory that Chomsky identified was that children are not reprimanded for uttering ungrammatical sentences.
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I'm so confident that such sentences are ungrammatical that I would be prepared to lecture it to a hostile audience.
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For example, Plato's dialogues contain a lot of anacolutha, which would now be rejected as ungrammatical, and the same applies to Shakespeare's plays.
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Given the same function condition, stated above, the non-pivot ergative noun phrase of the second clause cannot be omitted under coreference with the pivot noun phrase of the first clause, hence its ungrammaticality.
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‘The media is not a mirror of the culture,’ she fumed, nonsensically and ungrammatically, when asked about the popularity of shows like Queer Eye.
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this child speaks ungrammatically
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Something happened to my fluency in the weeks I missed in the middle of the year: I left a tongued-tied speaker and returned quite happy to babble at will, however ungrammatically.
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As you Americans say, so charmingly yet so ungrammatically, you do the math.
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Commas are most irritating of all when used ungrammatically.
Times, Sunday Times
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Far from being ungrammatical, split infinitives are always an option for modifiers of infinitival clauses, and sometimes the only option.
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The reliable finding is that participants give consistently higher liking ratings to novel grammatical strings than novel ungrammatical strings.
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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
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He's identifying the ungrammatical strings that the grammar should not describe; he's doing modern empirical synchronic syntax.
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They tell their own story, simply; sometimes ungrammatically and illiterately, but nevertheless irresistibly.
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By ‘abnormal’ I mean that there is nothing ungrammatical, but what has been said violates the rules governing communicative competence.
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But there would appear to be an infinite number of both grammatical and ungrammatical sentences.
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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.
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Identification takes place by noticing subtle differences between grammatical and ungrammatical utterances.
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She was told that sentences like the one you are now reading are ungrammatical.
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The literal English translation is simply ungrammatical, and most readers would find it incoherent.
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Those much-quoted subject-verb agreement errors certainly are remarkable failures of sentence planning; they're ungrammatical in every dialect.
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When drunk, for instance, he speaks ungrammatically.
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They tell their own story, simplysometimes ungrammatically and illiterately, but nevertheless irresistibly.
Cries of Despair and Society’s Problems
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Can a sentence be ungrammatical in isolation, but grammatical in context?
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That has to be the most ungrammatical sentence I have ever constructed.
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If he is a grammarian whose opinion we are supposed to respect, why does he write such ungrammatical English?
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Yes, I wonder whether there might have been a scribal error in that case: the sentence as presented seems not so much ungrammatical as simply incoherent.
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Why has a laudable achievement such as this not been highlighted as part of the ongoing tourism campaign which is somewhat ungrammatically named ‘Uniquely Singapore’?
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The problem is even more difficult with spoken language because of background noise and people's tendency to use ungrammatical sentences.
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Coquelin did some excellent French monologues — one of them an ungrammatical Englishman telling a colorless historiette in French.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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All of these seem ungrammatical to me personally.
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At least for me, the italicized sentence is somewhere between terminally awkward and out-and-out ungrammatical.
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Margaret's English spelling was atrocious, the handwriting not quite legible, sentences ungrammatical, disconnected or incomplete - a condition attributed to dyslexia or malfunctioning of the brain.