Prescriptive vs Descriptive Grammar My lecturers spent years teaching us how English should be used. And they were right. But if you study English, or even just love the language, you eventually learn ...

I have a distinguished colleague who unceasingly tries to persuade me to see that my attempts at descriptive grammar really have a prescriptive subtext. We were both participants in a workshop on the ...

We all know what is grammar. Grammar can be defined as the specific set of rules which helps us to arrange the words in the sentences to form a proper meaning. But have you ever thought about which ...

I follow several editing groups on Facebook and LinkedIn. I have noticed that many of the editors in these groups, particularly those from the US, describe themselves as prescriptive or descriptive.