中国大学MOOC: Descriptive grammar refers to grammarian’s attempt to legislate what speakers’ grammatical rules should be, rather than what they are.
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- Which type of grammar tends to teach you how the grammar is used by the people rather than how it should be used? A: descriptive grammar B: prescriptive grammar C: traditional grammar D: new grammar
- 中国大学MOOC: Intonation is about how we say things, rather than what we say.
- Modern linguistics is______ in the sense that the linguist tries to discover what language is rather than lay down rules for people to observe.
- "What the sentence is about" refers to the ________ of the sentence, which is not always the grammatical subject.
- 中国大学MOOC: What is the basic task for all speakers in a debate?