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

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

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

For myself, I am still haunted by those vowel sounds and those uniquely ungrammatical sentences only she could dream up!

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro