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- noun of language The
state orattribute ofobeying the rules ofgrammar ; grammaticalcorrectness .
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Examples
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But more seriously, is it really incorrect to say “There are 17 reasons why logic is not the test of grammaticality”?
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar 2009
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(Not that you should give too much on L2 grammaticality judgments, even if they are, like this one, intuitive and not based on learning …)
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Sentences like "I'm needing a break", which are of dubious grammaticality in 'standard' British English, are perfectly grammatical in Scottish English.
Class Notes: Why linguistic judgments are fuzzy GamesWithWords 2010
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Buried towards the end of a 1991 paper by Fisher, Gleitman & Gleitman is a strikingly useful -- and I think, correct -- observation on the limits of grammaticality studies.
Class Notes: Why linguistic judgments are fuzzy GamesWithWords 2010
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The internet is full of mistakes, as we know, so it is difficult to make a good argument for the grammaticality of a structure from the number of hits.
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Not sure if grammaticality is an issue, but Burroughs loves writing fragments, which slightly irks me, for someone to make as much money and get away with such poor grammar, savvy?
Smackdown: David Sedaris v. Augusten Burroughs (What if No One's Watching?) 2006
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Not so much because I am entranced by yet another rant about the declining grammaticality of speaking and writing today, but because I am sure to hear an error in the speech of the ranter.
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But hehe I think the problem usually has much more to do with the clarity of your message than it has to do with its grammaticality.
languagehat.com: GRAMMAR AND THE PRESCRIPTIVE ATTITUDE. 2005
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That is perhaps the single most astonishing sentence I've heard a native speaker of English utter in terms of grammaticality, I hasten to add; it's so bizarre I had to retype it because I automatically moved the "really" as I was copying it.
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Yet dictionaries don't corroborate the grammaticality of that usage.
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