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- noun The state or quality of not being
grammatical
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Examples
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The mild ungrammaticality is well worth the extra traffic, as any Search Engine Optimization consultant could tell you.
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If ungrammaticality is the price we must pay to avoid lines like this, I accept the trade.
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If ungrammaticality is the price we must pay to avoid lines like this, I accept the trade.
Book Review: Things That Make Us [Sic] makes me slightly ill « Motivated Grammar 2009
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The mild ungrammaticality is well worth the extra traffic, as any Search Engine Optimization consultant could tell you.
Short Sale Your House! (Don’t short sell it.) « Motivated Grammar 2010
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I can really make sense of your ungrammaticality judgment only as an aversion against the constructions excessive uncommonness (use of “whom” + overt relative pronoun in an object relative clause, which also seems to have become sort of uncommon) … Are “the boy to whom I gave the gift” and “the man whom I saw” really that much better for you?
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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I would be surprised to find a grammar snob who felt that impoliteness was a less severe problem than ungrammaticality — that would be a serious confusal of priorities. lauracope: Indeed it ought.
People that need people II: the subject-object distinction « Motivated Grammar 2008
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And please learn to spell -- I usually run from sites and comments with 'their' for 'there', 'dose' for 'does', 'it's self' for 'itself', 'alot' for 'a lot' and general ungrammaticality driven by, I suspect, rage.
Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol Zoe Brain 2008
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You have to admire that "drownded," which in its self-conscious ungrammaticality embodies precisely the overall tonality of self-righteous indignation.
Archive 2007-11-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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You have to admire that "drownded," which in its self-conscious ungrammaticality embodies precisely the overall tonality of self-righteous indignation.
When The Ship Comes In Bruce Schauble 2007
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Reading today's NY Times, I ran across a sentence in the story "Separatist Revives Movement in Quebec" by Clifford Krauss whose ungrammaticality was even subtler than the one cited in my entry OF OF: "A government audit found that the federal government had furtively passed out tens of millions of dollars to friendly advertising companies involved in antiseparatist publicity efforts deeply offended Quebecers."
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