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A prescriptive approach starts with rules and standards for language use. Once these rules and standards are developed, a prescriptive approach is to present those rules as how language should be used. In this structure there are good and bad uses of language. Take the sentence: Me and Johnny is going to the park. A descriptivist would catalog this usage and document that this sentence was actually used by someone. A prescriptivist would correct this usage, by pointing out: 1. An objective pronoun was used where a nominative pronoun should have been used. 2. The speaker was impolite by placing himself first instead of second. 3. A singular verb was used with a compound (plural) subject. The result would be a correction: "Johnny and I are going to the park." |
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| A descriptivist could also classify the circles in which such a sentence could be used, and suggest it isn'tfound in formal language. |
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