Example sentences for: ungrammatical

How can you use “ungrammatical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At 10 months, children stop paying attention to foreign languages; at 18 months, they recognize ungrammatical sentences.

  • There is nothing ungrammatical or wrong about saying “She's a real Johnny-comelately,” but it grates.

  • Generally speaking, a phrase or clause is difficult to translate in proportion as it diverges from the standard, or as some would say, as it is ungrammatical.

  • To paraphrase Tolstoy paraphrasing Pushkin: All grammatical expressions resemble each other; each ungrammatical expression is ungrammatical in its own way.

  • Quang Phuc Dong's English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject looks at the oft-questioned basis of fuck you!, whilst Munç Wang's Copulative Sentences in English: A Germanic Language Spoken in Northern Delaware studies the grammaticality (in the author's idiolect) of such sentences as Micky fucked Michelle's cadaver in the ass (grammatical), Bret fucked the mannikin through the hole he drilled in its throat (of questionable grammaticality), and Fred fucked the log through a hole that squirrels had made (ungrammatical).


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