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prescriptive grammar
noun
- an approach to grammar that is concerned with establishing norms of correct and incorrect usage and formulating rules based on these norms to be followed by users of the language.
- a set of grammatical rules based on such an approach.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prescriptive grammar1
First recorded in 1930–35
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