As the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography points out, "however juvenile and ungrammatical" this sounds, it "none the less expressed the philosophy that governed the rest of his life".
He instead insisted that "had developed" was ungrammatical, as in "he had developed a certain closeness".This diverted a dozen or so confused commenters into engaging Bradvines.
Americans in their young republic were also already going into decline, too: Adams Sherman Hill, a Harvard professor of rhetoric, found "the work of even good scholars disfigured by bad spelling, confusing punctuation, ungrammatical, obscure, ambiguous, or inelegant expressions" in 1879.
A good analogy is Yoda, the old man who mostly says wise things, is ungrammatical, and shows you how to use the force.
Many American style books will tell you that the preceding phrase, used by Franklin Roosevelt to describe the bombing of Pearl Harbour, is ungrammatical.
As the Soviet empire crumbled the Communist Party leader, Milos Jakes, in a leaked recording, could be heard complaining to his comrades (in ludicrously ungrammatical Czech) that the country was "the last pole in the fence".
The tea parties, remember, also started with little more than a (strikingly ungrammatical) cry of pain.
To represent the full richness, speed, and subtlety of the mind at work, the writer incorporates snatches of incoherent thought, ungrammatical constructions, and free association of ideas, images, and words at the pre-speech level.
He also described his success in restoring order and prosperity in epistles that, like all his writings, were ungrammatical yet testify to the grasp, incisiveness, and depth of a formidable intellect.
Generative grammars do not merely distinguish the grammatical sentence of a language from ungrammatical sequences of words of the same language; they also provide a structural description, or syntactic analysis, for each of the grammatical sentences.
It's official, the double-hyphenated, double-barrelled surname that has been imposed on 175,000 French children since 2005 is ungrammatical, un-French, and must be abolished.
