grammatical error
Faulty sentence construction
A grammatical error is a violation of the structural rules of a language—subject-verb disagreement, incorrect verb tense, misplaced modifiers: Between you and I instead of between you and me.
The term is sometimes used loosely to include spelling and punctuation mistakes, though these are technically distinct.
What counts as an error depends on whose grammar you're following.
- mistakeWrong action or decision
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- punctuationWritten clarity symbols
- spellingCorrect letter sequence
- comma spliceMisjoined clauses with punctuation
misplaced · split infinitive · comma · apostrophe · dangling · dangling participle · modifier · subject-verb · subject-verb agreement · agreement · tense · passive voice · double negative · fragment · sentence fragment · run-on · run-on sentence · sentence
- errorsmistake, blunder, blunders, fault, flaw
- document errorstypos, typo, misspellings, misspelling, missing pages
- language errorsspelling mistake, typo, misspelling, comma splice, run-on sentence
- text errorstypo, misspelling, misprint, spelling mistake, missing letter
- mistakesmistake, mistakes, slip, blunder, blunders
- language varietiesdialect, idiolect, sociolect, vernacular, accent
grammatical errorgrammatical correctness
Adherence to language rules
proper grammar · grammaticality · proper English · grammatical accuracy
grammatical errorspelling mistake
Incorrect letter sequence
spelling error · typographical error · typo · punctuation error · factual error
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