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
The inspirational quotes become increasingly absurd, disturbing, ungrammatical: “your ‘family’ is stoping you from being successful” — Anonymous; “The road to success is a rod that will take you to succes” — Colin R. Das.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
As ungrammatical as the chorus is, it’s memorable and enduring.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2018
The wording is ungrammatical and occasionally combines ideas that might otherwise have been kept apart.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2018
I didn’t even pay much attention to my parents’ accented and ungrammatical speech.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
