Sentence examples for ungrammatical sentence from inspiring English sources

Consider the ungrammatical sentence "I know that there are any cookies left". It sounds quite unnatural.

"Kirpal Singh stood where the horse's saddle would have lain across its back," reads one ungrammatical sentence.

"What you're saying is that sometimes, in politics as in journalism, you have to deal with people that you would not, to use an ungrammatical sentence, wish to breathe the same air as?" "Exactly.

By contrast, the diagram in Fig. 4 represents the ungrammatical sentence in (46b), which is in violation of the Minimal Link Condition (MLC) and locality.

An ungrammatical sentence like "Bill is the man I wanna take a walk" might go unnoticed as such and suffice on occasion for thought and communication (of "Bill is the man who I want to take a walk,"), but it's a striking fact that speakers of English even four-year old ones!—nevertheless find it problematic (see Crain and Lillo-Martin 1999).

Instead it depends on using sentences with their 'literal' or standard meanings in ways that give rise to new or unexpected insights — and just as there are no rules by which we can work out what a speaker means when she utters an ungrammatical sentence, makes a pun or otherwise uses language in a way that diverges from the norm, so there are no rules that govern the grasp of metaphor.

Garden-path sentences contain a temporary and ultimately curable ungrammaticality, whereas truly ungrammatical sentences remain so permanently a difference which gives rise to different predictions in the two classes of parsing architectures.

Later differences can be related to successful reanalysis in garden-path but not in ungrammatical sentences.

To distinguish empirically between parallel and serial parsing models, we compare ERP responses to garden-path sentences with ERP responses to truly ungrammatical sentences.

Grammatical unambiguous sentences should elicit an automatic response, while ambiguous and ungrammatical sentences should conflict with the automatic response and, hence, require a high-order control response.

Within the control response domain, ambiguity and ungrammaticality represent two different dimensions of conflict resolution, while for a temporarily ambiguous sentence a correct interpretation is available, that is not the case for ungrammatical sentences.