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2. Linguistic prescription - Wikipedia

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   For English, these authorities tend to be books. H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage was widely taken as an authority for British English for much of the 20th century; [24] Strunk and White's The Elements of Style has done similarly for American English. [citation needed] The Duden grammar (first edition 1880) has a similar status for German.

3. History of linguistic prescription in English - Wikipedia

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   More influentially, the first of a long line of prescriptionist usage commentators, Robert Lowth, published A Short Introduction to English Grammar in 1762. Lowth's grammar is the source of many of the prescriptive shibboleths that are studied in schools and was the first of a long line of usage commentators to judge the language in addition to ...

4. History of English grammars - Wikipedia

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   The 18th century saw the emergence of prescriptive grammars in English. A prescriptive grammar refers to a set of norms or rules governing how a language should or should not be used rather than describing the ways in which a language is actually used. Ann Fisher published 'A New Grammar' in 1745 which was among the earliest in the 18th century.

5. Robert Lowth - Wikipedia

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   Lowth's grammar is the source of many of the prescriptive shibboleths that are studied in schools, and established him as the first of a long line of usage commentators who judge the English language in addition to describing it.

6. Grammar - Wikipedia

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   The formal study of grammar is an important part of children's schooling from a young age through advanced learning, though the rules taught in schools are not a "grammar" in the sense that most linguists use, particularly as they are prescriptive in intent rather than descriptive.

7. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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   Some prescriptive grammar prohibits "preposition stranding": ending sentences with prepositions. ... This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.