Example sentences for: ungrammatical

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

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

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

  • The authors of a 1996 study of 10 years of suicides in Dordogne, France, concluded, in charmingly ungrammatical English, that "the French dies less in Full Moon, and more in New Moon period."

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

  • 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.


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