ungrammatical
Example Sentences
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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
And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Their screens flash and blink, their clip art grates, their sentences are often ungrammatical, their YouTube videos go on forever, and their Twitter names have four emoji in them.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2019
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
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
