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
The wording is ungrammatical and occasionally combines ideas that might otherwise have been kept apart.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2018
Me and my ilks, she wrote in a purposely ungrammatical way, get set in our ways, too, and have expectations of a certain level of knowledge, decorum and protocol.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2017
Would you like paper or conveniently? is ungrammatical, because conveniently is a modifier, and it’s a modifier that doesn’t work with like; you would never say Would you like conveniently?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
