The grammarians in the 18th century tried to lay down rules for the correct use of language, which is a _______ study.
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- 61. The ___________ ___________ approach was taken by some grammarians, mainly in eighteenth-century England, who lay down rules for the correct or “proper” use of English.
- 中国大学MOOC: As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for “correct” linguistic behavior, it is said to be ___________.
- Only in the late 18th century did the ______ of grammar rules with translation into target language become popular as the principal practice technique.
- Modern linguistics is______ in the sense that the linguist tries to discover what language is rather than lay down rules for people to observe.
- 中国大学MOOC: The linguists try to discover and record the rules to which the members of a language community actually conform. It is a _________ study.