prescriptive grammar

There is nonetheless a traditional rule of prescriptive grammar, applied chiefly to British English, governing the use of shall and will.

By definition, debate about whether singular they is acceptable or not lies within the realm of prescriptive grammar.

The title of the song is inaccurate according to the prescriptive grammar for Portuguese.

The naturalness gave force and freedom since there was no formalized prescriptive grammar binding the expression.

In that case, we would have to refer them to Ann Bodine's excellent essay 'Androcentrism in prescriptive grammar'.

Mencken assaulted the prescriptive grammar of these critics and American "schoolmarms", arguing, like Samuel Johnson in the preface to his dictionary, that language evolves independently of textbooks.

In prescriptive grammar fewer is the prescribed comparative to be used in relation to discretely quantifiable nouns, i.e., count nouns.

It offers a systematic and non-genre specific approach to music analysis and composition, a descriptive rather than prescriptive grammar of music.