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Ungrammatical

UNGRAMMAT'ICAL

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Adj.
Not according to the established and correct rules of grammar.

Definition 2024


ungrammatical

ungrammatical

English

Adjective

ungrammatical (comparative more ungrammatical, superlative most ungrammatical)

  1. (linguistics) 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.

Usage notes

In formal linguistics, ungrammatical sentences are labelled using an asterisk (*):

*The subject of this sentence is.

This convention goes back at least as far as Leonard Bloomfield's Language (1933).

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