How to Use grammatical in a Sentence

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• That sentence is not grammatical.
• And, as if that isn’t enough, there’s a string of grammatical errors more than a mile long.
  — David Treuer, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• George had squeezed out nothing but a vague awareness of the grammatical errors in the text.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• The grammatical article is right there on many of the school's seal, logos and signs.
  — Cindy Boren, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Not even the Supreme Court is immune from grammatical mishaps.
  — Yec, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• But sometimes the noun that is closest to the verb can exert more influence than the noun that is the grammatical subject.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
• Those two statements, very much in the news these days, share a common grammatical structure: they are composed in the passive voice.
  — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• Its first few vignettes are full of sentences that cast Jones as a grammatical object.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
• The deployment of the past tense, this grammatical suggestion that the job was done, had sneaked into the Governor’s speech as well.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• And if there is no bio or one filled with spelling and grammatical mistakes, or a broken URL to a website, that's suspect, too.
  — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• If that were so, there could never be such a thing as a grammatical error or an erroneous word choice.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Things become grammatical, Nordlinger notes, when people talk about them a lot.
  — Christine Kenneally, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• While the result may be grammatical English, this should not be confused with the purposeful kind.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Doubts were raised about everything from the perfectly square shape of the fragment and the modern-looking script to a grammatical error in the Coptic text.
  — David Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2020
• Some answers had grammatical touch-ups for ease of reading.
  — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2019
• Trust a writer to take issue with a grammatical issue, sure.
  — SI.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• The grammatical description of the sentence was the whole ordered sequence of layers.
  — Geoffrey K. Pullum, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• In the non-fluent variant, people may struggle to form sentences that make grammatical sense — or to produce words at all.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Ken likes to use Comic Sans font and, more often than not, his signs include a typo or grammatical error.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 6 Nov. 2018
• Last week, the court finally sided with Detmers, arguing that the lower court had erred in its grammatical reading of the word or.
  — Curbed, 10 Aug. 2023
• There, students of the language can make suggestions for the creation of new words, and Frommer frequently announces new words and grammatical changes on the site.
  — Sabrina Torres, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2022
• But at the same time that the grammatical challenge of these languages shrinks, their vocabulary explodes.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2018
• And there was the final message — which contained a grammatical error.
  — New York Times, 20 Nov. 2021
• Read the cover letter aloud and check for spelling and grammatical errors or typos.
  — Allison Pohle, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2020
• Smith first raises issues about grammatical mistakes, then moves on to the profile of the poster himself, who is from Nigeria and has 96 followers.
  — Robert Anglen, azcentral, 4 June 2020
• This isn't the only study to show that subtle grammatical shifts can sway our intentions and behaviour.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010
• Those who believe the split infinitive is a grammatical crime will see yet more evidence that standards are in a death spiral.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• Also be alert for spelling and grammatical errors, which can tip you off that a caller or emailer isn't legit.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Some of the prompts also have minor grammatical issues that highlight what a work-in-progress all of the Apple Intelligence features still are.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2024
• The document, released Monday, mirrors former President Trump’s rhetoric and style, from the nature of its proposals to its grammatical quirks.
  — Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 8 July 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024