2.

Grammatically, Meaningfulness, Acceptability

2.1. Grammatically
The grammaticality is usually considered as the structure of sentences, which
combines elements to form sentences. If a sentence follows the rules, it will become a
grammatical sentence and in contrast.
Eg: Gramatical sentence:
“The boy found the ball.”
S V O
Ungrammatical sentence:
“Disa slept sound.” → “Disa slept soundly.”
S V Adj S V Adv
2.2. Meaningfulness
The meaningfulness of the sentence is conditioned by how well-informed that
sentence is semantically. However, they could be either meaningful or meaningless. A
sentence is meaningful just if it is grammatical.
Eg: Meaningful sentence:
“I want him to come.”
Meaningless sentence:
“Redundance helps understanding.”
“Harmless young children sleep quietly.”
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” (Noam Chomsky, 1957)
This sentence is grammatically well-formed but it has no meaning.
An object cannot have both lack color and the color of green.
Grammatically and Meaningfulness
+ Most sentences we produce are gramamtically and meaningfulness.
Eg: “The girls promised their mothers to work hard.”
+ A sentence which is grammatically correct is not necessarily meaningful.
Eg: “The dog married the cat.” they are 2 different species.
2.3. Acceptability
The notion of acceptability is a matter of appropriate use of language in a given
situation, in a particular community and in a particular culture.
In grammatical sense, some sentences are unacceptable because it is not
grammatically possible.
Eg: “She wants buy this dress.”
“The cat white the dog black chased.”
 In semantic sense, a sentence may be grammatical but not acceptable in a given
context. Moreover, there may be sentences that are appropriate or acceptable in one
situation but not in the other.
+ Suitability to social etiquette
Eg: “I warn you that it rained heavily.”
(Acting of warning in this sentence “it rained heavily” should be in the future and it
should not be for the benefit of the addressee which causes a pragmatic in a sentence.)
“The princess kissed the ugly frog and it turned into a handsome prince.”
(This sentence is unacceptable in fact but it can be acceptable in a different world, such
as a fairy tale.)
+ Rationality/logical coherence
Eg: “I knew she was ill but I was wrong.”
(This sentence is grammatical but it is not semantically informed because we have 2
contradictory ideas or statements. In other words, the proposition in the first clause is
contradictory to the proposition in the second clause.)