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People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
John McWhorter

Meaning of "ungrammatical" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNGRAMMATICAL

ungrammatical  [ˌʌnɡrəˈmætɪkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNGRAMMATICAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ungrammatical is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNGRAMMATICAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ungrammatical in the English dictionary

The definition of ungrammatical in the dictionary is not regarded as correct by native speakers of the language.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNGRAMMATICAL


apothegmatical
ˌæpəθɛɡˈmætɪkəl
asthmatical
æsˈmætɪkəl
automatical
ˌɔːtəˈmætɪkəl
diagrammatical
ˌdaɪəɡrəˈmætɪkəl
dogmatical
dɒɡˈmætɪkəl
dramatical
drəˈmætɪkəl
emblematical
ˌɛmbləˈmætɪkəl
enigmatical
ˌenɪɡˈmætɪkəl
grammatical
ɡrəˈmætɪkəl
kinematical
ˌkɪnɪˈmætɪkəl
mathematical
ˌmæθəˈmætɪkəl
phlegmatical
fleɡˈmætɪkəl
pneumatical
njʊˈmætɪkəl
pragmatical
præɡˈmætɪkəl
primatical
praɪˈmætɪkəl
problematical
ˌprɒbləˈmætɪkəl
schematical
skiːˈmætɪkəl
spasmatical
spæzˈmætɪkəl
systematical
sɪstəˈmætɪkəl
unmathematical
ˌʌnˌmæθəˈmætɪkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNGRAMMATICAL

ungraced
ungraceful
ungracefully
ungracefulness
ungracious
ungraciously
ungraciousness
ungraded
ungrammatic
ungrammatically
ungraspable
ungrassed
ungrateful
ungratefully
ungratefulness
ungratified
ungravely
ungrazed
ungreased
ungreedy

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNGRAMMATICAL

aeronautical
alphabetical
analytical
chemical
critical
diacritical
elliptical
hypothetical
identical
metical
mystical
nautical
optical
pharmaceutical
political
practical
skeptical
statistical
tactical
theoretical
vertical

Synonyms and antonyms of ungrammatical in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ungrammatical» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNGRAMMATICAL

Find out the translation of ungrammatical to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ungrammatical from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ungrammatical» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不合语法
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ungrammatical
570 millions of speakers

English

ungrammatical
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ungrammatical
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير قواعدي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безграмотно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ungrammatical
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ব্যাকরণবিরূদ্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ungrammatical
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ungrammatical
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ungrammatisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

非文法的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

문법에 맞지 않는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ungrammatical
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sai ngữ pháp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ungrammatical
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असंभवनीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kuralsız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sgrammaticata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ungrammatical
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безграмотно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

negramatical
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σόλοικος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongrammatikaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ungrammatical
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ungrammatical
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ungrammatical

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNGRAMMATICAL»

The term «ungrammatical» is regularly used and occupies the 87.452 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNGRAMMATICAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ungrammatical

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QUOTES WITH «UNGRAMMATICAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ungrammatical.
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John McWhorter
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNGRAMMATICAL»

Discover the use of ungrammatical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ungrammatical and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Reality of Linguistic Rules
An. Acceptable. Ungrammatical. Construction*. Nicholas. Sobin. University of Arkansas at Little Rock 1. The concept of acceptable ungrammatically In 1965, Noam Chomsky argued persuasively that the notions grammaticality and ...
Susan D. Lima, Roberta Corrigan, Gregory K. Iverson, 1994
2
Recontextualizing Context: Grammaticality Meets Appropriateness
linguistic string can be grammatical or ungrammatical, in principle. If the linguistic string is processed completely, it is grammatical. However, as soon as the grammar comes across a violation of a particular rule, it will stop its processing ...
Anita Fetzer, 2004
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How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs
A proverb or any other string of words counts as ungrammatical if it cannot be analyzed by means of the standard syntactic mechanisms of the language in question. Ungrammatical strings cannot be semantically interpreted in any direct  ...
Neal R. Norrick, 1985
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Case and Linking in Language Comprehension: Evidence from German
4. Experiment. 1: Ungrammatical. Sentences. and. Phonological. Similarity. The theory of Case checking proposed above claims that there is a fundamental distinctionbetweenviolationsaccordingtowhichdativeCasehastobeassigned ...
Markus Bader, 2006
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Language: Its Structure and Use
Another view would count as ungrammatical any violation of a relatively small set of prescriptive “rules” such as these: Don't end a sentence with a preposition (e.g. , ◇ Which one did you work at?). Don't split an infinitive (e.g., ◇ to boldly go).
Edward Finegan, 2011
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Idioms in English: A Pragmatic Analysis
Only with ungrammatical idioms such as to trip the light fantastic come hell or high water does the speaker run the risk of obscurity. However, the number of ungrammatical idioms is so small that obscurity can be neglected as a feature of  ...
Jürg Strässler, 1982
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Connectionist Natural Language Processing: Readings from ...
In Table III a few ungrammatical sentences are shown that were tested with the medium grammar. These examples have produced reasonable structures in our judgment when presented to our system. They are shown in the table with their ...
Noel E. Sharkey, 1992
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Corpus Linguistics and Beyond: Proceedings of the Seventh ...
But computational linguists who work with corpora of authentic NL material often doubt the validity of any clearcut distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical sequences. Statistics on the distribution of different types of noun phrase in ...
Willem Meijs, 1987
9
Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar
On the other hand, the results from the remaining 13 subjects who took longer on the sentence pairs involving null subjects but did not distinguish between grammatical and ungrammatical agreement pairs are, ostensibly, more supportive of ...
Lydia White, 2003
10
Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in Second Language Learning, ...
The third research question considers learners' performances on the grammatical and ungrammatical sections of the GJTs. The results indicate that learners performed significantly better on the grammatical sections of both GJTs, which ...
‎2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNGRAMMATICAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ungrammatical is used in the context of the following news items.
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Early Addition: This Lousy Baseball Team Also Has The Most …
Early Addition: This Lousy Baseball Team Also Has The Most Ungrammatical Fans. by John Del Signore in News on Jun 23, 2015 1:24 pm. 062315ea.jpg «Gothamist, Jun 15»
2
Popular expressions English borrowed from other languages
As the examples below show, many of these calques, which have become part of the natural rhythm of the English language, are sometimes ungrammatical, yet ... «Daily Trust, Apr 15»
3
UNGRAMMATICAL USE OF PREPOSITIONS
Ghanaian English is saturated with sentences such as: “We must all seek FOR knowledge”, the elders will discuss ABOUT the issue”, “Teacher Azindoo ... «GhanaWeb, Apr 15»
4
Pedants of the world, we salute you
Your answers will indicate whether you think there's anything at all weird about Bryan Henderson, aged 51, having corrected the same ungrammatical phrase ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
5
Meet the Ultimate WikiGnome
In a 6,000-word essay, Henderson lays out his case for why that phrase is ungrammatical. It is one of the top Google results for 'comprised of.' “There's nothing ... «Backchannel, Feb 15»
6
Marchionne mixes up metaphors, but never his auxiliary verbs
Do not ask an unclear or ungrammatical question. Here's what happened when one reporter at the 2015 NAIAS press conference did that. Reporter: "Are there ... «Michigan Radio, Jan 15»
7
Gang-gang: Ungrammatical postings spell dating disaster
Today's column has an item about Peregrine Falcons and a mention of the National Carillon but what if in the piece I had clodhoppingly mis-spelled Peregrine ... «The Canberra Times, Dec 14»
8
Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes)
Many children are taught that it is ungrammatical to begin a sentence with a ... that sentences beginning with "and" and other conjunctions are ungrammatical. «The Guardian, Aug 14»
9
Why the Lyrics to Ariana Grande's New Single—And So Many Pop …
And so, below, we've rounded up some of our favorite ungrammatical, unidiomatic, or just plain awkward lines from songs by the Swedish hitmaker. “I live my life ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 14»
10
Fan Sues After Untimely Nap Brings Unwanted Attention
The complaint was written in highly idiosyncratic and often ungrammatical English by Valentine A. Okwara, a lawyer from Jamaica, Queens, who was admitted to ... «New York Times, Jul 14»

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