It is essentially a prescriptive grammar, i . e ., an authority that defines Sanskrit, although it contains descriptive parts, mostly to account for some Vedic forms that had become rare in's time.
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Some prescriptive grammars consider sentences starting with a conjunction such as " but " or " and " to be incomplete sentences, but this style prescription has " no historical or grammatical foundation ".
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Although prescriptive grammar ideas may influence formal / informal distinctions, there is much more to it than that ( e . g . see politeness theory, Paul Grice's work in pragmatics, etc . ).
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The choice between preterite and perfect, according to prescriptive grammars from both Spain and Hispanic America, is based on the psychological time frame whether expressed or merely implied in which the past action is embedded.
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Formal written Brazilian Portuguese tends, however, to omit the definite article in accordance with prescriptive grammar rules derived from Classical Portuguese even if the alternative form is also considered correct, but many teachers consider it inelegant.
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Dictionaries don't reflect these advances, grammar books intended for language learners may not, and prescriptive grammar books ( largely written by silly people for nervous people ) probably don't either, but good descriptive grammars do reflect them.
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:As you ( Nohat ) point out, only a lilliputian minority of people call acronyms ( or a subset thereof ) " initialisms ", and you've already namechecked the prior ( martial ) art : descriptive v prescriptive grammar.
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Prescriptive grammars, which date to ancient times for classical languages such as Latin and Sanskrit, are rule-based codifications of natural languages, such codifications being a middle ground between naive natural selection and development of language and its explicit construction.
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Prescriptive grammar, like almost all the rest of etiquette, is for the sole purpose of distinguishing those who have had the opportunity to learn the rules from those who have not, however it may be rationalised .-- talk ) 00 : 36, 10 November 2009 ( UTC)
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Notable characteristics of literary language in contemporary Japanese would include more frequent use of Chinese origin words, less use of expressions against prescriptive grammar such as " ?�bM0�I?", and use of non-polite normal form ( "-` 0 /-g0B0? " ) stylistics that are rarely used in colloquial language.
