Sentence examples for ungrammatical constructions from inspiring English sources

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.

Ungrammatical constructions of this kind are correctly filtered out by the language models.

Ordinary speech is full of ungrammatical constructions (constructions that may even be acknowledged to be ungrammatical by the speaker herself), incomplete sentences or phrases, metaphors, neologisms, jokes, puns and all manner of phenomena that cannot be met simply by the application to utterances of a pre-existing theory for the language being spoken.

The Supreme Court of Florida has construed the portion of the statutory oath printed in italics as follows: 'We think the pertinent clause, despite its ungrammatical construction was meant to apply retrospectively and that it should be read as if it had been written 'I have not lent and will not lend' * * *.' State v. Diez, 97 So.2d 109, 109.

This construction is ungrammatical in Colombian Spanish, but acceptable in other Latin American varieties such as Chilean and Argentinian Spanish.

Is it based on a misdiagnosis of a legitimate problem, such as declaring that a construction that is sometimes ambiguous is always ungrammatical? Do attempts to fix a sentence so that it obeys the rule only make it clumsier and less clear?

For example, suppose a mapping of vocabulary strings onto 'Grammatical/Ungrammatical' could be effected using a rule system that derives passive constructions from active ones.

His characters are mostly ungrammatical, and so is he.

"They thought it was ungrammatical or something," he said.

(Not a bad idea, ungrammatical though it was).

His questions are unfailingly polite, if occasionally ungrammatical.