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Default Re: Desriptive & prescriptive approaches the relevance to language teaching

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Originally Posted by Tdol View Post
There are prescriptivist teachers who claim that 'Woe is I' and 'It is I' are the only correct forms- are these non-dubious advatages?
And there are descriptivist teachers who teach that "Me and Johnny's goin to the park" is correct because many people say it. There are sins on both sides.
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