Sentence examples for grammatical trait from inspiring English sources

Certainly this grammatical trait, like most, is a matter of chance — some languages drift into marking things that others don't.

Generally Whorf's arguments took the form of examples that were anecdotal or speculative, and functioned as attempts to show how "exotic" grammatical traits were connected to what were considered equally exotic worlds of thought.

Although numerous resemblances in grammatical or phonological traits may be observed between Paleo-Siberian and adjacent languages (such as between Chukchi and Yupik, between Samoyed and Yukaghir, or between Nivkh and Korean or Japanese), these are not indexes of genetic affinity but are often the result of the diffusion of linguistic traits over large geographic areas.

There's a very Max Martin moment just after the word "about", where the chorus melody segues ever so slightly into"... you're the one that I ever needed", that slight grammatical wobble now a trait of Martin's songwriting (Ariana Grande's 2014 single Break Free features the line "now that I've become who I really are").

In such a case, they will often construct a communication form that has traits of both languages, but which has a simplified grammatical and phonological structure.

Notice a grammatical pattern?

Usage trumps grammatical purity.

This is called grammatical conditioning.

Use simple but grammatical speech.

It is disdainful of grammatical pruderies.

It is nonsense, but it is grammatical.