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Adjective(1) (2) not grammatical(3) not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage(4) not using the correct rules of grammar

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(1) Margaret's English spelling was atrocious, the handwriting not quite legible, sentences ungrammatical , disconnected or incomplete - a condition attributed to dyslexia or malfunctioning of the brain.(2) Identification takes place by noticing subtle differences between grammatical and ungrammatical utterances.(3) At least for me, the italicized sentence is somewhere between terminally awkward and out-and-out ungrammatical .(4) The reliable finding is that participants give consistently higher liking ratings to novel grammatical strings than novel ungrammatical strings.(5) Yes, I wonder whether there might have been a scribal error in that case: the sentence as presented seems not so much ungrammatical as simply incoherent.(6) The second problem with behavioral theory that Chomsky identified was that children are not reprimanded for uttering ungrammatical sentences.(7) She was told that sentences like the one you are now reading are ungrammatical .(8) That has to be the most ungrammatical sentence I have ever constructed.(9) By u2018abnormalu2019 I mean that there is nothing ungrammatical , but what has been said violates the rules governing communicative competence.(10) I'm so confident that such sentences are ungrammatical that I would be prepared to lecture it to a hostile audience.(11) The problem is even more difficult with spoken language because of background noise and people's tendency to use ungrammatical sentences.(12) This is a normal example of syntactic and semantic change in progress, and I'm certainly not about to say that these sentences are ungrammatical .(13) Those much-quoted subject-verb agreement errors certainly are remarkable failures of sentence planning; they're ungrammatical in every dialect.(14) Many also believe that they can rely on their own introspection to provide samples of clearly grammatical and clearly ungrammatical sentences that would be adequate for compiling and testing the rules.(15) All of these seem ungrammatical to me personally.(16) Can a sentence be ungrammatical in isolation, but grammatical in context?