How to Use grammatically in a Sentence

grammatically

adverb
  • To write about the Earth like that meant showing it some respect, even if the form of my respect was not grammatically acceptable.
    Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Some of the sentences were grammatically correct, while others were scrambled.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2012
  • The computer program then writes a grammatically correct diary entry based on those replies.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And then various editors went through three or four rounds to fix the grammar, and finally, there is a version that is grammatically acceptable.
    David Allen, New York Times, 20 June 2023
  • But the question of when a grammatically trans term deserves a dictionary entry remains unsettled.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Foreign nationals can now write more compelling, grammatically correct copy avoiding the telltale mistakes of old.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • To begin with, these peculiar two-noun phrases are grammatically incorrect.
    Rachel Lance, Scientific American, 2 July 2020
  • The reinterpretation leads for the first time to grammatically correct results with few exceptions.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Not just grammatically correct, but persuasive and insightful to a human reader.
    Ethan Mollick, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
  • For one, many social engineering emails aren't designed to be perfect (grammatically or otherwise).
    Ryan Kalember, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Those nastiest messages are usually the longest and most grammatically correct.
    Ginny Hogan, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Grammarly’s algorithm is trained on millions of grammatically correct sentences and inputs from users and their writing experiences.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But there was nothing grammatically incorrect or aesthetically objectionable about how the fashion brand had used the em dashes.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The stereotypes about Miami, however, do not make the dialect that has evolved over the years any less valid or grammatically complex than other dialects, according to Carter.
    Raquel Coronell Uribe, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The output, while competent, structured and grammatically perfect, was completely hollow.
    Laureen Knudsen, Forbes.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • For instance, the program is better at decrypting codes when the answer is a grammatically complete sentence instead of a random jumble of words—the former is likely better reflected in its training data.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Grammarly ensures your messages are professional and grammatically correct by offering spell checking, tone suggestions and even vocabulary hints.
    John Hall, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • One eerie consequence of using programs like ChatGPT to generate language is that the text is grammatically perfect.
    Fortune, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Not many of us, thumbing away on our phones, would compose such a grammatically coherent, cleanly punctuated missive, without an abbreviation, emoji or autocorrect snafu in sight.
    A.o. Scott, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • Comments on Instagram have been superlative, and remarkably grammatically correct.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Among the elements the online audience called out at the time were the theme song’s Spanish being grammatically incorrect, the name of the show’s fictional town being a reference to earthquakes and even the yellow tint of the skyline.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • According to the researchers, all of ChatGPT’s responses were grammatically correct, and nearly all of them contained only one joke.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
  • Both Danaher and Fond noted English has adjusted in recent years to encompass gender norms in ways that would’ve been seen as grammatically incorrect but are now socially acceptable.
    Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • Uniformly, these essays were clear, concise, grammatically correct and properly punctuated.
    Steven M. Galbraith, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Subordinate clauses, grammatically complete and correctly structured, showed up in nearly 13%.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • The hackers left threatening and grammatically incorrect messages in Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian, on the foreign ministry website.
    Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2022
  • For example, Old English was grammatically gendered until partway through the middle ages, when changes in the way people spoke eventually eroded the vocal distinctions between male and female.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2018
  • Others pointed out the grammatically incorrect Spanish on 818 Tequila's labels.
    NBC News, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Producing grammatically correct Indonesian, Arabic, Swahili or Hindi, however, does not change the underlying worldview through which these systems reason.
    Gareth Barkin, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The exercise started in spring 2023 as Phelps grew frustrated with the reality that students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments.
    ABC News, 31 Mar. 2026

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