Sentence examples for grammatical failures from inspiring English sources

Growing up, my best friend's parents were linguists, who disinterestedly charted her language acquisition as a toddler and then, with far more interest, her grammatical failures as a young adult.

By Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn October 14, 2009 Growing up, my best friend's parents were linguists, who disinterestedly charted her language acquisition as a toddler and then, with far more interest, her grammatical failures as a young adult.

Education is not about the curriculum; it's about the student, and a system that places so much emphasis on curriculum and so little on the student — and considers the student as an object (as here, a literal, grammatical object) is doomed to failure for the vast majority.

Only 20 of the 100 entries could fairly be attributed to a failure in subediting - I included all the grammatical errors and homophones in this category.

Notice a grammatical pattern?

Usage trumps grammatical purity.

This is called grammatical conditioning.

Use simple but grammatical speech.

It is nonsense, but it is grammatical.

It is disdainful of grammatical pruderies.

We all have our grammatical bugbears.