Prescriptive (definition)

Prescriptive Rules are designed to impose a correct usage of grammar for a language. An example of a prescriptive rule is the prohibition of ending a sentence with a preposition. Prescriptive rules are contrasted with descriptive rules, which describes native speaker's actual usage.

See Also

• Descriptive (definition)

External Links

• http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=prescriptive
• http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/lx001/Discussion/d10.html
• http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/grammar/main_files/grammar2.htm

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescriptive

References

• Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.