| 单词 | ungrammatical |
| 例句 | Would you like paper or conveniently? is ungrammatical, because conveniently is a modifier, and it’s a modifier that doesn’t work with like; you would never say Would you like conveniently? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I didn’t even pay much attention to my parents’ accented and ungrammatical speech. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Is it based on a misdiagnosis of a legitimate problem, such as declaring that a construction which is sometimes ambiguous is always ungrammatical? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For myself, I am still haunted by those vowel sounds and those uniquely ungrammatical sentences only she could dream up! The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Why would anyone think that this perfectly natural construction is ungrammatical? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Teachers need a simple way to teach them how to break sentences, so they tell them that sentences beginning with and and other conjunctions are ungrammatical. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z At the time, the ungrammatical and somehow provocative use of “like” instead of “as” created a minor sensation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Samuel Johnson’s commas, in the mid-18th century, were not only heavy; many would be ungrammatical today, and this style persisted into the first editions of The Economist in 1843. Don’t p@nic 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Like most writers, I can be a stickler about language, but anyone who hangs out with me for long enough will learn that I favor a certain ungrammatical turn of phrase: “true fact.” The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z "First, the critical sentence defining the 'Work' covered by the Agreement is ungrammatical and awkwardly phrased," Circuit Judge Denny Chin wrote in the 48-page opinion. Comic writer's Ghost Rider copyright lawsuit revived on appeal 2013-06-11T16:01:03Z On a grammar/usage note - when someone writes something ungrammatical, is the NYT obliged to use the incorrect spelling when it quotes them? When the Cyberbully Is You 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z “A letter of condolence may be abrupt, badly constructed, ungrammatical — never mind,” advised the 1960 edition of Emily Post. The Art of Condolence 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z “The People are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred,” Whitman acknowledged, but not without the faith that the “miracle” of original identity, the “luminousness of real vision,” is within everyone’s grasp. Walt Whitman saw Donald Trump coming: “Genuine belief seems to have left us. The underlying principles of the States are not honestly believed in” 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z And in general, the A.I. bots were useful for sharpening prose and cleaning up clunky, ungrammatical sentences. A.I. Bots Can’t Report This Column. But They Can Improve It. 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Part Donald Trump and part Howard Beale, McCarthy seemed to think that what Republicans crave is rage — partisan, purposeless, inchoate and ungrammatical rage. Opinion | Kevin McCarthy wants you to know: He’s really, really angry 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Another piece from 1968, about Gamblers Anonymous, quotes the people at a meeting in ungrammatical English, speaking “as if from some subverbal swamp.” Review: New volume brings together 12 Joan Didion essays 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The inspirational quotes become increasingly absurd, disturbing, ungrammatical: “your ‘family’ is stoping you from being successful” — Anonymous; “The road to success is a rod that will take you to succes” — Colin R. Das. Hudson Yards Is Coming for Your Soul 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z First, Trump himself went into his customary Twitter meltdown, spending days issuing ungrammatical tirades calling on Kavanaugh to sue for "liable." Republicans' new plan for victory: Claim men are the "real" victims of #MeToo 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z “Mom, I’m not coming home,” it said, in ungrammatical German. How a German Teen’s Death Has Become a Political Weapon 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The wording is ungrammatical and occasionally combines ideas that might otherwise have been kept apart. Jeremy Corbyn's Anti-Semitism Crisis 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The sentence “They are my good friend” may strike you as ungrammatical. If someone wants to be called 'they' and not 'he' or 'she', why say no? | Robin Dembroff and Daniel Wodak 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z If you look at the words she chose: “barely intelligible” and “ungrammatical.” Etan Thomas: Now a Different Kind of Player 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z But that doesn't mean I'm not stressed by pronouns that seem ungrammatical. In the ladies room at the Oscars, a transgender moment signals a cultural shift 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z She then took James to task for his “ungrammatical” and “unintelligible” language. LeBron James responds to Fox host's controversial 'shut up and dribble' comment 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z The thing about the Internet Research Agency is that they have made any sort of harsh, humorless, stiffly ungrammatical criticism of United States policy open to suspicion. The Agency 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Me and my ilks, she wrote in a purposely ungrammatical way, get set in our ways, too, and have expectations of a certain level of knowledge, decorum and protocol. Opinion | Trump v. the media: A failure to communicate 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z In his great dictionary, Johnson called irresistless a “barbarous ungrammatical conjunction of two negatives”. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Noel suggested that was a reasonable reading of the ungrammatical tweets. Minneapolis man charged with making threats to remain jailed 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z That’s what it says — verbatim, in ungrammatical English — on a plaque that greets you as you enter a rotunda in the Ordos Museum. The Colossal Strangeness of China's Most Excellent Tourist City 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Someone identifying himself as James Clarkson responded to the Naumans' email with a rambling, ungrammatical message stating that the puppies "are very playful and loves much attention and to be pampered." Online puppy scam leaves San Clemente couple $500 poorer 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z It’s akin to suggesting the first journalists to reach Auschwitz should have filed ungrammatical reports, as though bad prose badly would somehow better acknowledge the magnitude of the evil. Death and horror: there's no spectacle we so eagerly pursue – but can we see it for what it is? 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z That’s because teachers need a simple way to teach them how to break sentences, so they tell them that sentences beginning with “and” and other conjunctions are ungrammatical. It's OK to boldly split infinitives, says Harvard psychologist 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z According to an old rule about "dangling modifiers", these sentences are ungrammatical. Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z They found that for the primary age children in the sample, use of ungrammatical word forms and unconventional spelling in texts was linked to better spelling ability 12 months later. Texting 'can improve spelling' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z In fluent if ungrammatical English he told us he was taking us somewhere that would tell us more about his country, one of the longest-running democracies in Central America. India Ink: Lessons for the Largest Democracy From a Much Smaller One 2014-04-14T12:14:13Z Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington is a fount of pithily fatalistic, doggedly ungrammatical baseball quotes, including the classics “He do what he do” and “That’s the way baseball go.” Baseball’s greatest songs: 27 perfect songs, from Springsteen, Dylan and more 2014-03-29T15:00:00Z After a firestorm erupted, Franks later sought to clarify his somewhat ungrammatical comments, claiming he was referring to women seeking abortions in the sixth month. The claim that the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy is ‘very low’ 2013-06-13T10:00:00Z That's because teachers need a simple way to teach them how to break sentences, so they tell them that sentences beginning with "and" and other conjunctions are ungrammatical. Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z I have ventured to exchange the ungrammatical name of Anodonta, given by Bruguiere to this genus, for Anodon, at the suggestion of the learned Dr. Goodall, Provost of Eton College. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z He was popular, for he had a bluff and hospitable manner; he was an authority on politics, and possessed an eloquent if ungrammatical tongue. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z The punctuation in the original edition was erratic and often ungrammatical, and many words were spelled inconsistently. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Rhetorical faults, and even ungrammatical expressions, are constantly overlooked, and illegibility has almost come to be regarded as an essential characteristic. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Is it based on a misdiagnosis of a legitimate problem, such as declaring that a construction that is sometimes ambiguous is always ungrammatical? Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z “It’s me—Peaches,” was the quick if ungrammatical answer. Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner 2012-02-17T03:00:33.267Z Did you notice what the Catholic Telegraph said about your lecture being ungrammatical? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z It wasn't no flesh and blood, ma'am," she used to say in her ungrammatical way; "it was a little angel a-taking care of Master Ernest. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Whatever is so unfamiliar as not to be generally understood is also ungrammatical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z This is ungrammatical, as it obliterates the possessive case, and is therefore indefinite; and moreover, it looks and sounds awkwardly. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z If not ungrammatical, it is at least of questionable construction, and so not at all like Mr. Pagebrook's usage. A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z In the Catholic Telegraph occurs the following: "The lecture was a failure as brilliant as Ingersoll's flashes of ungrammatical rhetoric." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z It was of course easy for me to see at once that this ungrammatical and absurd letter had not been written by my daughter! My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z You would be as ungrammatical in West Somerset as thee is in classical English; and both you and thee, as nominatives singular, would have been equally ungrammatical in Early English. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The text of this book is frequently corrupt; but the evident sense of these ungrammatical lines 3-5 is that the envoys were allowed to watch the unsuspecting damsels from some hidden coign of vantage. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z It was no mere Celtic accent; it was the pure and original parlance of his native island, though shorn of those ungrammatical horrors with which we are prone by habit to associate it. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z The English was ungrammatical; in a word, the water of life was being dispensed with a strong taint of the soil in a poor earthen vessel. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z What seems a violent and ungrammatical omission of the verb, is probably in those people an obscure association of thoughts, a non-separation of the object from its being. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z It is no religion to pray to God in ungrammatical language and to have his holy Scriptures in a grammatically incorrect text. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z Researchers played jumbled, “ungrammatical” remixes of finch songs to the birds and studied the calls that they made in response. Researchers study grammar in the songs of birds 2011-07-04T21:17:05Z The printed text also contains the text about the three witnesses; but it is pieced into the context in an awkward and ungrammatical way; and whether it is in any MS. the writer cannot say. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z Furthermore, the diction is confused and ungrammatical, unlike what one would expect of a literate priest. Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 2011-06-13T02:00:22.167Z And he has more particularly noticed “Le bone Florence de Rome,”—thus written by our ungrammatical minstrels. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The poetry was not fine, the wording was ungrammatical, the verse halted and went quite lame in places, but I have never heard any lines before or since which gave me such unalloyed pleasure. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z To show a sense of syntax in the animals, Abe’s team played jumbled, “ungrammatical” remixes of finch songs to the birds and measured the response calls. Researchers study grammar in the songs of birds 2011-07-04T21:17:05Z The Rat at one time had probably known quite a different station in life, and the Rat’s speech therefore, even in the vernacular, would hardly be ungrammatical. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z Phrases culled from southern dialects are frequent; and the structure of the period is often ungrammatical. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z G before I ungrammatical orthoepists declare is sounded hard, but so numerous are the exceptions, that the exceptions might equally be adopted for the rule. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Hunt’s writings were termed “eruptions of a disease” with which he insists upon “inoculating mankind;” his language “an ungrammatical, unauthorized, chaotic jargon.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z In humans, a region called Broca’s area is activated when we hear ungrammatical sentences, so Abe suggests that studying the counterpart region in finches might throw new light on the origins of human grammar. Researchers study grammar in the songs of birds 2011-07-04T21:17:05Z "I never knew him late but once," observed Passmore, attempting to keep up conversation in his broken and most ungrammatical Spanish. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z The gallant defenders of Barthomley Church were “these kind of people,” whom this monster, ungrammatical as inhuman, had massacred to a man! No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z It is never ungrammatical as spoken by children, but always expressive, practical and natural. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z A little tender-hearted, ungrammatical, motherly “me”—how well the writer knew the small “Bessie” whose affection for this doll inspired the verses! Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z The comments she perused were of all sorts, even the ungrammatical sort, but she read them all with profound interest, and loved every one, even the most fulsome. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Though often as ungrammatical and inelegant, it was seldom the Duke was so explicit in his correspondence as he is in the above letter. Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. 2011-02-07T03:00:25.780Z She has small feet, smooth hands and carefully kept nails, but her language, while spoken in a peculiarly pleasing voice, is so ungrammatical and colloquial that it makes rigors creep over me. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z The pleasure of hearing from a lady a cavatina executed in the most finished manner, will be entirely destroyed, if her first spoken words after the performance are vulgar, or her sentence ungrammatical. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z In fact, Steevens thinks that Shakespeare, of all the writers of his day, was the most ungrammatical. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z "It's her!" answered Dorothy, in ungrammatical delight; and Sybil, catching some of her spirit, held the little emblem above her head, crying, laughingly: "Now let the poor leaf get in its fine work!" A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z ‘Mr. Cadogan,’ said she, with ungrammatical curiosity, ‘what does you here this time o’ night?’ British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z "No sermon could have been half so effective as these stammering ungrammatical, but manly remarks." The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them The main object of these blighters is just to wrap up in a perfectly unintelligible and ungrammatical jargon what everybody else can see without bothering about it. Years of Plenty "No use what?" he queried with ungrammatical directness. The Heart of a Woman "Never no more for mine," he declared, with ungrammatical force. The Automobile Girls at Chicago or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds The addition of got, though not ungrammatical, but gradually becoming obsolete, does not in any degree strengthen the meaning. Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected Allen’s speech was ungrammatical, but its message was one of good cheer and Hollis’s eyes brightened. The Coming of the Law He once requested the instant discharge of a waiter at "Peele's," because the civil but ungrammatical man had said, "There are a leg of mutton, and there is chops." Old and New London Volume I With the slight alterations indicated by Italics, his meaning I think will be apparent; though in his hurry, or inadvertence, he has left his lines very confused and ungrammatical. Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc She was very ungrammatical, but her tone was sweet, and Rupert smiled. Under False Pretences A Novel The incorrectness of the first form of expression is very clearly seen by cutting out rather, leaving “I had do,” which is ungrammatical and meaningless. Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected The writing is not elegant; it is sometimes ungrammatical; but it is intelligible, and with its bluntness could hardly fail to make itself felt. Noah Webster American Men of Letters However badly spelled and ungrammatical their written language might be, it was invariably neatly and legibly—often beautifully—executed. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself The sentence might be ungrammatical, but it was strictly true. Brooke's Daughter A Novel Banish from the nursery, the school-room, and the play-ground, incorrect and ungrammatical expressions, and you do more than can be done in all other ways to preserve "the well of English undefiled." In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education If it is necessary to have the printer set up slangy, misspelled, or improperly capitalized words, or ungrammatical or poorly punctuated sentences, put in the margin, Follow Copy. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories They discovered suddenly that the world for ten centuries had been living in an ungrammatical manner, and they made it forthwith the end of human existence to be grammatical. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) The theme in every case was a more or less ungrammatical, crude, and utterly banal rendition of the claptrap morality exploited in the cheap story-books. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself Diffuse, vulgar, and ungrammatical, he strips history of all her ornaments. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors At school the Political Woman will have been highly thought of as a writer of vigorous essays, in which unconventional opinions were expressed, in ungrammatical language. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 29, 1890 This is frequently so ungrammatical and obscure that even publishers’ readers balk at it, and it goes the rounds. An Ocean Tramp "Silver Bells of Memory" is better, though marred by the ungrammatical passage "thoughts doth linger". Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 At times his characters will speak with something far beyond propriety—with a true heroic note; but on the next page they will be wading wearily forward with an ungrammatical and undramatic rigmarole of words. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 Mitford censures teach as ungrammatical; but it may be justified as a "construction according to sense." Select Poems of Thomas Gray One of them begins with this not very impressive and very ungrammatical couplet:— With our late Vicar, and his age the same, His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Than whom, though ungrammatical, is sanctioned by usage. b. The Century Handbook of Writing "Too tired to hardly stand" is a seriously ungrammatical phrase, which should read: "almost too tired to stand." Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 As it stands in The Book Annexed the language of the prayer is possibly ungrammatical and certainly redundant. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer “It isn’t me,” he whispered back, with ungrammatical fervour. Rope Two others were from ungrammatical school girls, asking her how they should proceed, in order to become motion picture stars. The Film of Fear Do not use a verb, conjunction, preposition, or noun in a double capacity when one of the uses is ungrammatical. The Century Handbook of Writing The talk was ungrammatical and literal and of the earth. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 We wanted," he says, "to correct one ungrammatical clause in the Consecration Prayer of the Communion Service. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer She long since had spread the information throughout the State that his mountain idioms and ungrammatical lapses were affectations to catch the uneducated voter. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight A disciple less likely to make converts than Father Cullen it would be difficult to imagine, seeing that in language he was most violent and ungrammatical—in appearance most uncouth—in argument most unfair. The Macdermots of Ballycloran Don't meddle with foreign nouns or verbs unless conversant with the language itself; incorrect and ungrammatical usage is too apt to be the unhappy result. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Then, with a mutter, ungrammatical but eloquent, he spurred on toward the lonely, supperless shack by the slough. The Biography of a Prairie Girl His speech though sometimes ungrammatical was vigorous and precise and his stories gave evidence of his native constructive skill. A Son of the Middle Border “It’s me, Ted!” said that ungrammatical young man, a bit excitedly. Ted Marsh on an Important Mission If the words deanamh, bualadh, in the phrases adduced, were real Participles, then in all similar instances, it would be not only unnecessary, but ungrammatical, to introduce the preposition ag at all. Elements of Gaelic Grammar To sign it would produce a confusion of persons and be ungrammatical to the last degree. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society But Marguerite, I know, would never be so ungrammatical. The Prairie Child The evangelist, one of the old-fashioned shouting, hysterical, ungrammatical, gasping sort, took charge of the services, and in his exhortations phrases descriptive of lakes of burning brimstone and ages of endless torment abounded. A Son of the Middle Border It was an old-fashioned prayer, such as the girl had never heard from the Bishop's lips; ungrammatical, inelegant, and long. Moods It is badly spaced, has many errors and is ungrammatical.” The Hilltop Boys A Story of School Life And in return he danced "La Dieppoise" for her, and sang her a little ungrammatical ditty in praise of wine and women. The Martian It is told in a pleasant haphazard fashion, enriched with flashes of caustic wit and disfigured with a good deal of ungrammatical and slovenly writing. Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 It is involved and ungrammatical at times, but not obscure. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Lizzie was accustomed to ungrammatical language at home, but the atmosphere of this house made ignorance of good form noticeable. The Wind Before the Dawn The class bent forward, attentively listening while a roughly clad, uncouth boy, slipshod in attitude, stumbled through the broken periods of his ungrammatical sentences. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) She would be bluff and rude and ungrammatical and ill-bred. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City Many a poorly written, ungrammatical news story is printed simply because it contains facts that are of interest, regardless of the way in which they are presented. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing A gushing but ungrammatical editor says: "We have received a basket of fine grapes from our friend ——, for which he will please accept our compliments, some of which are nearly one inch in diameter." English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. Jane so trained, so educated, so far removed superficially from the ungrammatical, bronzed, clumsily dressed, graceful visitor. The Branding Iron She knew that he was ungrammatical, but she denied that he was uncouth. The Job An American Novel But that is very different from saying that, in the beginning, all reasoning was unsound, or all speech ungrammatical. The Idea of God in Early Religions If a lead is ungrammatical no clever arrangement of details can make it effective or other than ludicrous. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing The style of that text is sometimes laboured and pompous; it is often ungrammatical. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi "I did not say where I was going, sir," said the Parson drily, for he was much offended at that vague and ungrammatical remark applicable to his horsemanship, that "he did not look like it." The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 A reply came on the morrow, couched in pompously ungrammatical terms, which sufficiently refute the rumour that it was composed by that polished talker, Loughborough. William Pitt and the Great War Her language, like that also of Pordage, is ungrammatical, of involved style, and full of overwrought and fanciful imagination. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries But it would be ungrammatical to begin it thus: "Rescuing his own son was the work, etc." Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing The minister's education was quite limited, as she could perceive from the ungrammatical language he used, but he preached sound orthodox doctrine. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch His speech was not greatly different from that of others: the woodspeople, spending many of the long winter days in reading, are usually careless in speech but rarely ungrammatical. The Snowshoe Trail The sentence, brief and ungrammatical, served its purpose. Chatterbox, 1906 Puzzled by the ungrammatical construction of the phrase, you are probably inquiring what it meant. Ran Away to Sea For other examples of Thorpe’s pretentious, half-educated and ungrammatical style, see p. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Well, then, somebody posts back his Election Address with 'This is pitiful balderdash and most ungrammatical' written plainly at the bottom of it. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 "You thought she was me while all the time she was she and me was me,"—the hodge-podge of pronouns and their ungrammatical use was too much for poor Chuck. Phyllis A Twin In translating an ill-written, illiterate, and ungrammatical manuscript, these two translators had had recourse to rhetorical figures, and actually substituted a trope for what was a verb, generally used in the West, signifying "to bind!" An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa This omission sometimes makes the sentence ungrammatical or doubtful in its meaning. Practical Grammar and Composition It is curious enough that this sentence of the Bishop is, itself, ungrammatical! The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. One should not permit slovenly expressions, or slang, or the thousand and one faults of mispronunciation and ungrammatical construction into which people fall, to be characteristic of one's speaking. The Etiquette of To-day But, before he could speak, the child-woman had launched into a vivacious, if ungrammatical, explanation and story of what had occurred. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands But mark the anomaly: had they been Englishwomen of the same rank and similarly uneducated, they would have been uncouth and ungrammatical in speech, awkward in manner and dowdy in dress. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Up to this period Sally had shown a decided preference for the ungrammatical language of the seamen, though she associated freely with Young and Christian. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers Dear reader, the conversation that followed was so abrupt, exclamatory, interjectional, and occasionally ungrammatical, as well as absurd, that it could not be reduced to writing. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West He wrote so fast that his sentences are often loose and ungrammatical; but they are never unidiomatic or stiff. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 “Oh, haven’t he, sir?” said he, the ungrammatical phrase dropping more naturally from his rustic tongue; “then he’ll have to get ’un sharp, or pay the fare, sir.” Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel They have not got there yet, to use a thoroughly hateful and ungrammatical but absolutely accurate sentence. Seen and Unseen “If I didn’t know it was him,” signalled the ungrammatical Dicky across the room, “I should never have believed it.” Tom, Dick and Harry The language they use is not only ungrammatical but oftentimes both slangy and profane. The Mother and Her Child His style is strong, homely, and vigorous, but the sentences are long, loose, clumsy, and sometimes ungrammatical. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 His dress was very plain and poor, his manner was uncultured, his language was ungrammatical. Three People Ecclesiastical radicals, boiling over with new schemes, and boasting to admiring circles of MacWheeps that they would not be brow-beaten by red tape officials, became ungrammatical before that firm gaze, and ended in abject surrender. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers A simple homily from a holy man, even though it were halting, lame, and ungrammatical, will carry more weight than the most learned and eloquent discourse preached by a worldly priest. My New Curate The word "from" was superfluous, ungrammatical, and inelegant, according to Ireland, and, accordingly, it was not in Kirk's edition. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Now it is well for us to face at once the counter-statement that the most ignorant and uncultivated men often succeed best in business, and that misspelled, ungrammatical advertisements have brought in millions of dollars. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric But Ernestine Geyer was not "common," and Milly, with her quick instinct for personal values, realized it as soon as she could recover from the shock of the harsh voice and the ungrammatical idiom. One Woman's Life A robust young man, with a bull neck and of ungrammatical habits, said, in a tone of impatient disdain, that the landlord of the building had ‘refused’ $1500 a year for it. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City She knew his speech was ungrammatical, but thought that due to careless training rather than to no training at all. The Cow Puncher His enemies might accuse his style of being coarse, and sometimes even ungrammatical, but they could never deny its energy or its effect. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Back in the mountains he had but little opportunity to attend school, and his sentences were framed in the quaint construction of his people, and nearly all of them were ungrammatical. Sergeant York And His People Fortunately for Milly's feelings, Ernestine sat bolt upright and tongue-tied in the novelist's presence and thus did not betray her ungrammatical self. One Woman's Life Stoford, however, had its official seal, bearing the ungrammatical, but intelligible, legend, The Customs of Old England The talk that was indulged in must have been interesting, even though the French was halting and ungrammatical. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" Ecclesiastical radicals, boiling over with new schemes, and boasting to admiring circles of MacWheeps that they would not be brow-beaten by red-tape officials, became ungrammatical before that firm gaze, and ended in abject surrender. Rabbi Saunderson His very faults were middling—he was not very ungrammatical. Scenes of Clerical Life There is in his German writings hardly one sentence which is not ungrammatical, confused, or clumsy; nor one without a vigorous idea, which shows the mind or character of the man. The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence But the bright carelessness of Laurence, who dashed at any speech in idiomatic but ungrammatical outlander's French, gradually won upon him. The Black Douglas Why, the man's lack of taste in dress, the expression of his face, his ungrammatical language, stamped him as belonging to a distinctly lower order. The Strange Case of Cavendish Undesirable qualities are the diffuse, verbose, redundant, inflated, prolix, ambiguous, feeble, monotonous, loose, slip-shod, dry, flowery, pedantic, pompous, rhetorical, grandiloquent, artificial, formal, ornate, halting, ponderous, ungrammatical, vague, and obscure. Talks on Talking My much-esteemed friend,"—Calabressa wrote, in his ornate, ungrammatical, and phonetic French—"the poor devil who is the bearer of this letter is known to you, and yet not altogether known to you. Sunrise In their ungrammatical way they talked much like human beings. The Romance of the Coast "But—you are you, and I am only—me," she returned, ungrammatical but proudly humble. The Halo Apart from his poems he left no literary remains, except a few letters too hideously ungrammatical for publication. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 "Who to?" exclaimed Mr. Dod, in ungrammatical amazement. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') Which is all very ungrammatical and entirely me, as I am when I get off my hinges too suddenly. An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Only a dancing girl, With an unromantic style, With borrowed color and curl, With fixed mechanical smile, With many a hackneyed wile, With ungrammatical lips, And corns that mar her trips! Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs Some sentences are so ungrammatical as to be scarcely intelligible. Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031) The Quakers also are occasionally found in the use of the ungrammatical expressions, that have been brought against them. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 "When is the next train to Woodvale?" was my ungrammatical query. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life He would also criticize my conversation, never letting one word pass that was ungrammatical or incorrectly pronounced. Memories and Anecdotes So runs the Cockney doggerel, clear If ungrammatical, austere, With not a saving clause to qualify Its rigid Spartan rule, or mollify Theft's Nemesis. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 A letter of condolence may be abrupt, badly constructed, ungrammatical—never mind. Etiquette As he spoke he did not tell himself that it was nothing less than the disconnected and ungrammatical remarks of the lady of the feathers which prompted this consideration, this prophetic movement of his mind. Flames Why resort to this other, strained, awkward, ungrammatical, unreasonable transposition of additional words to grant one power distinctly and leave the other to be grafted upon it by an unjust implication? The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Recollect, it applies to the verb and not to the noun; therefore, in these examples the verb is ungrammatical. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Yet he was not always correct or polished; on the contrary, he was sometimes ungrammatical, negligent, and unenforcing, for he concealed his art, and was superior to the knack of oratory. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson Our speakers have notoriously been amongst the most unlearned and ungrammatical, and therefore often despised, while so many thousands of university men were preaching and writing of Christ. Regeneration Being quick to imitate, she spoke in the correcter language of those whom she knew best, rather than the soft, ungrammatical dialect of the plantation slave or the grunt and mumble of the isolated African. Vanguards of the Plains But Chatterton is frequently ungrammatical, and the sense of the passage is quite clear if either of the two following possible meanings is attributed to unryghte. The Rowley Poems When one of the two negatives employed is joined to another word, it forms a pleasing and delicate variety of expression; as, "His language, though inelegant, is not ungrammatical;" that is, it is grammatical. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Griffith is, in Intolerance, the ungrammatical Byron of the films, but certainly as magnificent as Byron, and since he is the first of his kind I, for one, am willing to name him with Marlowe. The Art of the Moving Picture Written in ungrammatical Russian, bearing many orthographic mistakes, this document seems to be a fragment of a report, by some unidentified co-operating agent, to his unrevealed superior. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated While Dicky's French was often ungrammatical, his pronunciation was good, much better, in fact, than either Joe's or Bob's. The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps Rachel murmured, employing a local phrase which Mrs. Maldon had ever contemned as meaningless and ungrammatical. The Price of Love "You're my Baby"; and the ungrammatical "Who Were You With Last Night?" The First Hundred Thousand He knew it was as ungrammatical as a pig. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Of this letter, Mr. Salame says, that it is the worst of the African papers which he had seen, both as to its ungrammatical and unintelligible character. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa And with this ungrammatical burst of joy he bolted from the room. The Night Horseman The literary taste of the eighteenth century, as typified in Dr. Johnson, consciously discredited idioms which it held to be ungrammatical; and this error persists. Society for Pure English, Tract 01 (1919) His speech is something shocking; nothing but the slang of the streets, and so ungrammatical that I could scarcely understand him at times. Two Little Knights of Kentucky They demanded more than his short, concrete, and ungrammatical utterances. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Where the author adopts verse as a vehicle, his language becomes crabbed and ungrammatical in its endeavour to accommodate itself to the unwonted restraint of metre, which it nevertheless fails to do. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England We have not scrupled to imitate this irregularity, as not inconsistent with the plain, ungrammatical speech of the characters introduced, and the homely air of even the most imaginative passages. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 I know not what certain critics mean, when they say that Shakespeare is frequently ungrammatical. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical structure of speech, destroy the grace of easy poetry. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler A strangely ill-worded and ungrammatical petition to have the assembly dissolved was presented to the governor by the Lower Cove people, but Governor Carleton refused to interfere, and the Upper Cove candidates kept their seats. The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration It seems to be a ruling passion amongst certain writers to portray anybody connected with commerce as being an ungrammatical ignoramus. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 The words are often misspelled, many expressions are ungrammatical, but the handwriting is good and the judgments expressed, even those set down when he was only sixteen, are the mature judgments of a man. George Washington: Farmer In regard to dignity and interest, these higher studies seem to have greatly the advantage over particular grammar; but who is willing to be an ungrammatical poet, orator, or logician? The Grammar of English Grammars There was something in this speech which grated on my ear as painfully ungrammatical; and I resolved, on the first opportunity, to instruct Holly in the rudiments of grammar. A Grandmother's Recollections One day, after a whole batch of ungrammatical novels had reached him from the library, he posted his manuscript to his favourite publisher. The Ghost Ship The prince might have felt that his summons was abrupt, but knew not that it was ungrammatical, and so was led away in triumph. Malbone: an Oldport Romance Only a dancing girl,With an unromantic style,With borrowed colour and curl,With fixed mechanical smile,With many a hackneyed wile,With ungrammatical lips,And corns that mar her trips. The Bab Ballads Of the tens of thousands who have learned for grammar a multitude of ungrammatical definitions and rules, comparatively few will ever know what I have to say of their acquisitions. The Grammar of English Grammars It did not gain by being put in the ungrammatical tongue of Quakers. The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow In the best French which he could muster, and which was in sooth of a very ungrammatical sort, Jos besought the hussar to tell his tale. Vanity Fair At times his characters will speak with something far beyond propriety with a true heroic note; but on the next page they will be wading wearily forward with an ungrammatical and undramatic rigmarole of words. Memories and Portraits "A good story is a good story—no matter who it's about," said the Story Girl with ungrammatical relish. The Golden Road This is as ungrammatical, as it is untrue. The Grammar of English Grammars That clash of sibilants is both harsh and ungrammatical. The Certain Hour U.S.G.—The expression, "The United States is at peace," is ungrammatical, but you did perfectly right in writing to Punchinello before believing it. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 13, June 25, 1870 Pray tell your wife that a note of interrogation on the superscription of a letter is highly ungrammatical—she proposes writing my name Lamb? The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 Lessing has shown this to be a false and even ungrammatical rendering of Irenæus's words. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nothing can be more ungrammatical, than is much of the language by which grammar itself is now professedly taught! The Grammar of English Grammars A robust young man, with a bull neck and of ungrammatical habits, said, in a tone of impatient disdain, that the landlord of the building had 'refused' fifteen hundred dollars a year for it. The Secrets of the Great City But the People are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Probably, at this time, he had begun to know German, a language in which he did ultimately achieve a fluency which was, it appears, always ungrammatical. Henrik Ibsen There are some days when any of us may be ungrammatical and spell ill. The Virginians If the works of grammarians are often ungrammatical, whose fault is this but their own? The Grammar of English Grammars Of his native language he had only an ungrammatical knowledge, like many of his race in Russia. The Possessed (The Devils) It avoids the use of two words, as "Telegraphic Message," or "Telegraphic Dispatch," and the ungrammatical use of "Telegraph," for a message by telegraph. Steam, Steel and Electricity Sometimes, even now, his language was ungrammatical, but so, for the matter of that, was theirs…. The Call of the Cumberlands But whether she cared a jot for him and his feelings he could not clearly make out, from the style of the hurried, ungrammatical sentences, crammed with abbreviations and unpermissible elisions. An American Politician That the use of the plural for the singular is ungrammatical, it is neither discreet nor available to affirm; yet, surely, it did not originate in any regard to grammar rules. The Grammar of English Grammars This is not only ungrammatical, it is uninteresting. Business Correspondence For example, if I have read one, I have read twenty letters, addressed to newspapers, denouncing the name of a great quarter in London, Mary-le-bone, as ludicrously ungrammatical. Autobiographical Sketches I know not what certain critics mean, when they say that Shakspeare is frequently ungrammatical. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Often it does not take even so long, for a raucous tone of voice and grossly ungrammatical or vulgar expressions brand a man at once as beyond the pale of polite society. Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 In this, as well as in many other things, the custom of speech has changed; so that what was once right, is now ungrammatical. The Grammar of English Grammars It should be a hard and fast rule that an ungrammatical letter must never be sent out under any circumstances. Business Correspondence "His style," says one, who knew him personally, "was a singular compound of local barbarisms, scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness; and though unclassic, and sometimes ungrammatical, was highly animated and forcible." Life of George Washington — Volume 01 I'm going to train you till you wish you'd died young and ungrammatical in Millings. Hidden Creek Yes, of course I do, if it isn't ungrammatical. Dawn No plausible argument, indeed, can be framed for it, without the assumption, that the simpler form, when used in the same sense, is ungrammatical. The Grammar of English Grammars Such sentences are found in the writings of our best authors, and it would be presumptuous to consider them as ungrammatical. Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby At times his characters will speak with something far beyond propriety with a true heroic note; but on the next page they will be wading wearily forward with an ungrammatical and undramatic rigmarole of words. Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson All very well for a time; but as the notes increased the corrections decreased, and at last nothing was said of ungrammatical French or comical English and the little notes were exchanged in silence. Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories I shall write you an item myself," she exclaimed, and seizing a stubby pencil, she wrote rapidly:— "A battered and ungrammatical old woman from the valley of Virginia has settled in our midst. The Boss of Little Arcady They are all of them unreal or feigned sentences, made up for the occasion, and, like most others that are produced in the same way, made up badly—made up after some ungrammatical model. The Grammar of English Grammars Pray tell your wife that a note of interrogation on the superscription of a letter is highly ungrammatical! The Best Letters of Charles Lamb Related to the graphs—their cousins in fact—are the grams: telegram, radiogram, cryptogram, anagram, monogram, diagram, logogram, program, epigram, kilogram, ungrammatical. The Century Vocabulary Builder Rimini" the Quarterly finds to be an "ungrammatical, unauthorized, chaotic jargon, such as we believe was never before spoken, much less written…. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come He is not only ungrammatical, which, in a familiar letter, is a matter of very small consequence, but somewhat stilted. Lectures and Essays "Dismissing of his servant so hastily," is in itself an ungrammatical phrase; and nothing but to omit either the preposition, or the two adverbs, can possibly make it right. The Grammar of English Grammars It precludes the use of all slang words, vulgar phrases, obsolete terms, foreign idioms, ambiguous expressions or any ungrammatical language whatsoever. How to Speak and Write Correctly That we should be severed for so slight a cause--an ungrammatical phrase in my Italian exercise, and three false notes in one of Paisiello's sonatas! Guy Mannering — Complete It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules—almost as completely as that created by Carlyle. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope "Mine is rabbits and rats and badgers," Tim called out with ungrammatical emphasis. The Extra Day "It is curious enough, that this sentence of the Bishop is, itself, ungrammatical!" The Grammar of English Grammars Do not use ungrammatical words and forms; as, "I ain't;" "he don't." How to Speak and Write Correctly Being safe, now, I began to puzzle through my sincere but ungrammatical thanks, when there was a sudden mutual recognition —the benefactress and I had met at Allerheiligen. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 03 To use an American and somewhat ungrammatical colloquialism, I may say that I "got along fine" with Marshal Stalin. The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Ellesmere begins by deprecating criticism of his style, declaring that anything inaccurate or ungrammatical is put in on purpose. The Recreations of a Country Parson "But our ears are grown familiar with I have wrote, I have drank, &c., which are altogether as ungrammatical." The Grammar of English Grammars Strange, coarse slang-words were used,—and the news of the day was slung together in loose ungrammatical sentences and chopped-up paragraphs of clumsy construction, lacking all pith and eloquence. Innocent : her fancy and his fact Many know no other language, and we are unwillingly compelled to admit that while their speech is often ungrammatical and unrhetorical, it is generally clear, concise, and forcible. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking They were often broken, even once or twice they had been actually ungrammatical in a phrase or two. In His Steps The newly-arrived parlor-maid was pleased by this friendly if ungrammatical reception, and thought she would like the cook in spite of her somewhat tiresome tongue. The Secret Passage They who set aside the authority of custom, and judge every thing to be ungrammatical which appears to them to be unphilosophical, render the whole ground forever disputable, and weary themselves in beating the air. The Grammar of English Grammars With him he occasionally exchanged a letter, but Andrew's share in the correspondence was limited to ungrammatical and often unintelligible hints of numerous projects for money-making. Born in Exile Avoid such ungrammatical forms as "He has went," "I have saw." Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking He is condemned without trial by his villainous countenance, like an ungrammatical preface to a book. Vittoria — Complete He is condemned without trial by his villanous countenance, like an ungrammatical preface to a book. Vittoria — Volume 1 The delivery of this ungrammatical message, but rational query was like a ray of light streaming into a dark place. Foul Play "Me!" said Miss Boncassen, choosing to be ungrammatical in order that he might be more absurd. The Duke's Children Every grammar school teacher is ready to point out that his style is often prolix and his sentences are sometimes ungrammatical. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters On these occasional gleams of pure leadership he finds the finest King's English ready to his lips, while at other times he is ungrammatical, ordinary, but never uninteresting or slow of intuition. At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. His mediocre stature, thinning locks, and undistinguished features created an impression which was confirmed by his slovenly attire and ungrammatical speech, which seemed "shackled by a preternatural secretion of saliva." John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court In French the story is too confused and chaotic and unreposeful and ungrammatical and insane; consequently it could only cause grief and sickness—it could not kill. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories If I were asked an opinion I would call this an ungrammatical nation. Mark Twain's Speeches Mrs. Benson beamed with motherly content, and was quite as tearful as ungrammatical, but her mind was practical and forecasting. Their Pilgrimage They read ungrammatical resolutions, and made speeches beginning, "Gentlemen, we have met on this occasion," and ending with, "It's a beastly shame," precisely as houses have done since time and schools began. Stalky & Co. It is not merely inelegant and ungrammatical but is evidently the work of a man of puzzled understanding, probably of Harley. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 Rickie was prepared to find his old schoolfellow ungrammatical and bumptious, but he was not prepared to find him peevish. The Longest Journey Occupying a limited space between two fashionable thoroughfares, it refused to conform to circumstances, but sturdily paraded its unkempt glories, and frequently asserted itself in ungrammatical language. Urban Sketches That we should be severed for so slight a cause—an ungrammatical phrase in my Italian exercise, and three false notes in one of Paesiello's sonatas! Guy Mannering "What is the square to me or I to the square?" returned Madame with ungrammatical majesty. The Prophet of Berkeley Square Shopmen, clerks—only occasionally ungrammatical—felt sure that Robert Phillips, the tried friend of the poor, would insist upon the boon of Protection being no longer held back from the people. All Roads Lead to Calvary In the meantime he talked incessantly, and to his admiration, he presently found her manner of speech wonderfully like his own, both fluent and ungrammatical. Lahoma It was ungrammatical to begin with; was it true? Crome Yellow His language, when I did hear it, was confused and ungrammatical. Armadale So, while waiting for his strawberries, he smiled over the ungrammatical outburst of the young lady who had come to doubt the genuineness of him who called her Dearest. The Agony Column The Greek is in places very ungrammatical and intractable. Laws Isn't that a horrid way of speaking of us? and Miss Ladd says it's ungrammatical, besides. I Say No How different, at the same instant, is General Lafayette's street eloquence; wrangling with sonorous Brewers, with an ungrammatical Saint-Antoine! The French Revolution This handsome, ungrammatical son of the soil had set between us the bar of his cold and perfect civility. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains |
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