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. Sometimes they overlap, but sometimes it’s different, and…[Read more]
Elizabeth Pyatt wrote a new post, Descriptive vs Prescriptive Standards, on the site Elizabeth Pyatt's Tech Blog
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