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
In June 1980, Wojnarowicz sent eight postcards in sequence, one a day, that spelled, in whimsical, elegant hand-drawn letters, “J’aime toi”— or, “I love you,” in ungrammatical French.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
The wording is ungrammatical and occasionally combines ideas that might otherwise have been kept apart.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2018
First, seemingly thrown by syntactical complexity, it suggests that I should replace “there in a” with “there is a,” a change that would be ungrammatical, but that still leaves me questioning my own stylistic choices.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2018
Is it based on a misdiagnosis of a legitimate problem, such as declaring that a construction which is sometimes ambiguous is always ungrammatical?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
