How do you use Ungrammatical in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like grammatical, plus the exact meaning.
Ungrammatical in a sentence
Ungrammatical meaning
In violation of one or more of the rules and conventions of a language as defined by the grammar, resulting in unacceptable or incorrect usage.
Synonyms of Ungrammatical
Using Ungrammatical
- The main meaning on this page is: In violation of one or more of the rules and conventions of a language as defined by the grammar, resulting in unacceptable or incorrect usage.
- Useful related words include: ill-formed, grammatical.
- In the example corpus, ungrammatical often appears in combinations such as: ungrammatical to, be ungrammatical, an ungrammatical.
Context around Ungrammatical
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ungrammatical
- In this selection, "ungrammatical" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pedestrian, though, hypothesis, sentence, sentences and prose stand out and add context to how "ungrammatical" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include assigns an ungrammatical version of and assigns every ungrammatical sentence a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ungrammatical" sits close to words such as abada, abbottabad and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ungrammatical
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In Hausa it is ungrammatical to do the same with coordinating conjunctions. (12 words)
Such expressions are not available to language learners: they are, by hypothesis, ungrammatical. (13 words)
Fowler (1926), p. 559. In some cases, moving the adverbial creates an ungrammatical sentence or changes the meaning. (18 words)
For example, if the companions were “dog and cat,” it would be ungrammatical to move either “dog” or “cat” to the front of the sentence for emphasis, while it is grammatical to do so when there is a Comitative marker rather than a conjunction. (44 words)
However, not only has no evidence been found of a river "Lo" predating the work where Peder Claussøn Friis first proposed this etymology, but the very name is ungrammatical in Norwegian: the correct form would have been Loaros (cf. (39 words)
Pereira's model assigns an ungrammatical version of the same sentence a lower probability than the syntactically correct form demonstrating that statistical models can learn grammaticality distinctions with minimal linguistic assumptions. (31 words)
Example sentences (13)
In 2000, writer Anthony Holden faced the wrath of 11-year-old readers when he lambasted Rowling’s “pedestrian, ungrammatical prose style which has left me with a headache”.
A speaker may indicate dominance through arrogance using the phrase His shit don't stink (though ungrammatical, this is the accepted diction).
For example, if the companions were “dog and cat,” it would be ungrammatical to move either “dog” or “cat” to the front of the sentence for emphasis, while it is grammatical to do so when there is a Comitative marker rather than a conjunction.
For example, it would be ungrammatical to write "Mary was hugged her daughter" in order to show that Mary and her daughter shared a hug.
Fowler (1926), p. 559. In some cases, moving the adverbial creates an ungrammatical sentence or changes the meaning.
However, it is not clear that the model assigns every ungrammatical sentence a lower probability than every grammatical sentence.
However, not only has no evidence been found of a river "Lo" predating the work where Peder Claussøn Friis first proposed this etymology, but the very name is ungrammatical in Norwegian: the correct form would have been Loaros (cf.
In Hausa it is ungrammatical to do the same with coordinating conjunctions.
Pereira's model assigns an ungrammatical version of the same sentence a lower probability than the syntactically correct form demonstrating that statistical models can learn grammaticality distinctions with minimal linguistic assumptions.
Such expressions are not available to language learners: they are, by hypothesis, ungrammatical.
That is, "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" may still be statistically more "remote" from English than some ungrammatical sentences.
The absence of negative evidence—evidence that an expression is part of a class of ungrammatical sentences in one's language—is the core of his argument.
To this, it may be argued that no current theory of grammar is capable of distinguishing all grammatical English sentences from ungrammatical ones.
Common combinations with ungrammatical
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- ungrammatical to 3×
- be ungrammatical 2×
- an ungrammatical 2×
- ungrammatical sentence 2×
- is ungrammatical 2×
- ungrammatical sentences 2×