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Prescriptive Rules are designed to impose a correct usage of grammar for a language. These rules are usually written by so-called experts and have little linguistic value or accuracy. 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
External Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescriptive
References
- Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
