grammatical

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The grammatical solecism of the title isn’t the only vaguely—or not so vaguely—irksome element of “The Disappear,” a new play written and directed by Erica Schmidt being presented at the Minetta Lane Theatre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

For one thing, such groups tend to have intellectual underpinning which means they write grammatical and properly spelled French.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

In an experiment with 35 native English-speaking adults, researchers tracked the brain activity of participants learning a miniature language called Mini Pinyin that is based on Mandarin but with similar grammatical rules to English.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

Rachel Syme’s foreword to the musical book says that this version of “Ironic” turns it into “an inside joke about poetic license and grammatical errors.”

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024

A grammatical function identifies not what a word is in the language but what it does in that particular sentence: how it combines with the other words to determine the sentence’s meaning.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker