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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GRAMMATICAL ANDUNGRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE IN ENGLISH

LANGUAGE
In English Language, grammaticality of a sentence is not only focus on the structure
of the sentences, but it is also determine by the meaning of the sentences. This is because, there
are3 t yp e s o f g r a m m a t i c a l i t y i n E n g l i s h l a n g u a g e s , w h i c h a r e m e a n i n g f u l
b u t u n g r a m m a t i c a l , meaningless but grammatical and also meaningless and
ungrammatical. For example, in thecontext of a sentence that is meaningful but
ungrammatical, we can see the differences in thesentence:
Sisters siblings of their brothers they are
This is comprehensible or meaningful as a sort of "Yoda English", but,
a m o n g o t h e r problems with the sentence, there is no way that the grammar would
allow two NP's to comenext to each other, such as sisters and siblings of their
brothers.B e s i d e s t h a t , t h e s e c o n d t y p e o f t h e s e n t e n c e
g r a m m a t i c a l i t y i s m e a n i n g l e s s b u t grammatical, where we can see it in the
sentence:
Sisters are brothers of their siblings
This sentence switches places of the nouns "siblings" and "brothers" from the
originalsentence, but otherwise it has the same structure as the original. Since the original is
grammatical by our definition, this sentence must also be grammatical. However, it is
meaningless since"sisters" are female siblings and "brothers" are male siblings, making it
impossible that "sisters"could also be "brothers".The third type is meaningless and grammatical
in the sentence:
Sisters brothers of their siblings they are.
This is the "Yoda English" version of the sentence in meaningless but grammatical.
As pointed about for meaningful but ungrammatical, "Yoda English" is ungrammatical by the
rulesof the grammar that we are referring to, and as pointed out for meaningless but
grammatical

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