ungrammatical

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Yet, somehow, he was producing paragraphs of eighth-grade level prose instead of the barely-intelligible and ungrammatical screeds — fourth-grade level prose, according to a 2024 New York Times analysis — he usually whips out.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2025

And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

Like most writers, I can be a stickler about language, but anyone who hangs out with me for long enough will learn that I favor a certain ungrammatical turn of phrase: “true fact.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 19, 2018

Is it possible that the slogan’s ungrammatical inelegance is part of that rebuke?

From Slate • May 7, 2018

Why would anyone think that this perfectly natural construction is ungrammatical?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker