ungrammatical
English
Etymology
un- + grammatical
Adjective
ungrammatical (comparative more ungrammatical, superlative most ungrammatical)
- (linguistics) In violation of one or more of the rules and conventions of a language as defined by the grammar, resulting in unacceptable, or incorrect, usage.
Usage notes
In formal linguistics, ungrammatical sentences are labelled using an asterisk (*):
- *The subject of this sentence is.
This convention goes back at least as far as Leonard Bloomfield's Language (1933).
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in violation of one or more of the rules and conventions of a language
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