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
Smothers died on Dec. 26, and that same day, a new book with a clunky and ungrammatical title became available on Amazon: “Tom Smothers: Revealing 4 Untold Truth About Half of Smothers Brother.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2024
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
As ungrammatical as the chorus is, it’s memorable and enduring.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2018
Why would anyone think that this perfectly natural construction is ungrammatical?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
