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Meanings of ungrammatical in English

Not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage.

Usage of ungrammatical in English
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Provenzano, who never went to secondary school, wrote in often ungrammatical Italian.
Reuters
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And with this ungrammatical burst of joy he bolted from the room.
The Night Horseman
3
His language, when I did hear it, was confused and ungrammatical.
Armadale
4
A letter of condolence may be abrupt, badly constructed, ungrammatical-nevermind.
Etiquette
5
The language they use is not only ungrammatical but oftentimes both slangy and profane.
The Mother and Her Child
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There are some days when any of us may be ungrammatical and spell ill.
The Virginians
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They demanded more than his short, concrete, and ungrammatical utterances.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
8
Do not use ungrammatical words and forms; as, "I ain't;" "he don't."
How to Speak and Write Correctly
9
The Greek is in places very ungrammatical and intractable.
Laws
10
Puzzled by the ungrammatical construction of the phrase, you are probably inquiring what it meant.
Ran Away to Sea
11
As the sentence now stands, it is apparently ungrammatical.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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It was ungrammatical to begin with; was it true?
Crome Yellow
13
I'm going to train you till you wish you'd died young and ungrammatical in Millings.
Hidden Creek
14
His characters are mostly ungrammatical, and so is he.
The new yorker
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I know not what certain critics mean, when they say that Shakspeare is frequently ungrammatical.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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I know not what certain critics mean, when they say that Shakespeare is frequently ungrammatical.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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