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agrammatism : refers to a form of aphasia characterized by difficulty in producing and comprehending written and spoken grammatical phrases or sentences.

Speech consists mostly of content words, and there are few attempts at syntactic structures; many function words and inflections are missing, and there are few verbs. In inflecting languages such as German or Russian verbs mostly appear in the infinitive and nouns in the nominative. Some (but not all) patients who are agrammatic in speech production also have difficulties in sentence comprehension, where understanding the sentences requires knowledge of their syntactic structures.

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