grammar - What differences and relationships are there between . . . 2 What differences and relationships are between nonstandard ungrammatical standard but informal? You ask a number of questions It is always difficult to respond to questions about a book where only a portion is quoted, and most people don't own this one
What exactly does it mean to say something is grammatical? So what is judged to be grammatical at one point in time may be judged to be marginal, or outright ungrammatical, a hundred years later, say The number of speakers who follow the rule has dwindled and the number of people who violate it has grown Things can get a little complicated when the focus is language, not dialect
grammar - Why are these words ungrammatical - English Language Usage . . . 'Ungrammatical' in the sense usually used here means 'breaking some rule of syntax' Since syntax doesn't apply to individual words or non-words, your question should be 'Why are riceful and antful not acceptable words?' Are you saying that any combinations of letters might properly be regarded as an acceptable word, that adding -ful to any noun should generate an acceptable word, or just that
Passive sentences with no active counterparts If so, why? What explains it being ungrammatical while the passive is grammatical? There would presumably be a constraint on the active verb, but (a) what is it and (b) why is it no longer applicable in the passive? Is the above a rarity? To put in another way, how common are passive sentences with no active counterpart in English?
I get it vs. I got it - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "I got it" is ungrammatical, and while it may correspond to the pronunciation used by many native speakers, in truth what sounds like "I got it" is the contracted form of "I've got it " Just because people don't know that's what they're saying doesn't mean that's not what they're saying; it just means they're unreflective about their language usage and need to learn to defer to those of us who