ungrammatical
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Nor does it explain how his social media presence, which was always ungrammatical and silly, has become even more unhinged and incoherent.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2023
The inspirational quotes become increasingly absurd, disturbing, ungrammatical: “your ‘family’ is stoping you from being successful” — Anonymous; “The road to success is a rod that will take you to succes” — Colin R. Das.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
The wording is ungrammatical and occasionally combines ideas that might otherwise have been kept apart.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2018
Me and my ilks, she wrote in a purposely ungrammatical way, get set in our ways, too, and have expectations of a certain level of knowledge, decorum and protocol.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2017
Would you like paper or conveniently? is ungrammatical, because conveniently is a modifier, and it’s a modifier that doesn’t work with like; you would never say Would you like conveniently?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
