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Descriptive vs Prescriptive Standards

Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammars A useful distinction linguists make in describing grammars is “prescriptive” vs. “descriptive” grammars. Simply put, the difference is the prescriptive grammar is what your teacher tells you to do, but descriptive grammar is what actually happens.… More On: Descriptive vs Prescriptive Standards

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