| ADJECTIVE | all | prescriptive, normative | pertaining to giving directives or rules |
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| Meaning | pertaining to giving directives or rules. | |
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| Example | "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" | |
| Synonym | normative | |
| Category | grammar | The branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) |
| Opposite | descriptive | describing the structure of a language |
| Spanish | normativo, prescriptivo | |
| Verbs | prescribe | issue commands or orders for |
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