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

In June 1980, Wojnarowicz sent eight postcards in sequence, one a day, that spelled, in whimsical, elegant hand-drawn letters, “J’aime toi”— or, “I love you,” in ungrammatical French.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

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

The wording is ungrammatical and occasionally combines ideas that might otherwise have been kept apart.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2018

Is it based on a misdiagnosis of a legitimate problem, such as declaring that a construction which is sometimes ambiguous is always ungrammatical?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker