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Old 06-Sep-2005, 15:52
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Exclamation Prescriptive grammar and Descriptive grammar
Hello everyone,
Would you please tell me the difference between these two kind of grammer?I read their definitions somewhere but still I don`t know what is the exact difference between them.

1)Prescriptive grammar.
2)Descriptive grammar.

Thanks in advance,
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