prescriptive grammar in English

noun

approach to grammar which sets down rules and norms of correct and incorrect usage and formulates rules based on these norms which are then used by users of the language; set of grammatical rules based on prescriptive gramma

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1. Descriptive grammar and prescriptive grammar both are very important in English studies.

2. Androcentrism in prescriptive grammar: singular ‘they’, sex-indefinite ‘he’, and ‘he or she’1 - Volume 4 Issue 2

3. Androcentrism IN PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR ridicule, to horror, but invariably the feminists' demand is viewed as an attempt to alter the English language

4. In prescriptive grammar, Correctness is the notion that certain words, word forms, and syntactic structures meet the standards and conventions (that is, the "rules") prescribed by traditional grammarians. Contrast Correctness with grammatical error.