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PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prescriptive grammar mean?
• PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR (noun)
The noun PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR has 1 sense:
1. a grammar that is produced by prescriptive linguistics
Familiarity information: PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A grammar that is produced by prescriptive linguistics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("prescriptive grammar" is a kind of...):
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
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