grammatical mistake

collocation in English

meaningsofgrammaticalandmistake

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grammatical
adjective
uk
/ɡrəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/us
/ɡrəˈmæt̬.ɪ.kəl/
relating to grammar or obeying the rules ...
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mistake
noun[C]
uk
/mɪˈsteɪk/us
/mɪˈsteɪk/
an action, decision, or judgment that produces an unwanted or ...
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(Definition ofgrammaticalandmistakefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrammatical mistake

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But to read the expression in this way is to make agrammaticalmistake.
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When the child makes agrammaticalmistake, it is normally clear that the error arises from a partial understanding or misapplication of the rules of the target grammar.
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Let thisgrammaticalmistakebe their monument.
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Fowler mentions it as a majorgrammaticalmistake.
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Changes involving relatively concrete, unnoticeable features readily receive sociolinguistic marking as they are not easily seen as speech errors or grammatical mistakes.
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There were also other types of grammatical mistakes to act as distracters.
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For instance, let us assume that in a given sentence of a non-revised text there were two grammatical mistakes.
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The book is also spoilt by spelling and grammatical mistakes.
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I think this is one of the grammatical mistakes that we agreed to correct.
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It is bespattered with dozens of obvious grammatical mistakes and dozens of obvious and patent clerical errors.
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This 36-page long report, possibly written after the payment as a justification, was extremely poorly written (contained numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes, for instance).
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The game's localization effort was criticized by reviewers as poorly written, being rife with grammatical mistakes that almost stopped players from enjoying the storyline.
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This is similar to parents raising their children; as children get older parents tend to correct their grammatical mistakes more often.
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Pick noticed that not only was the accent altered, but the timing of the speech was slower, and the patient spoke with uncharacteristic grammatical mistakes.
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