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  2. Linguistic description - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic description is often contrasted with linguistic prescription, [8] which is found especially in education and in publishing. [9] [10]As English-linguist Larry Andrews describes it, descriptive grammar is the linguistic approach which studies what a language is like, as opposed to prescriptive, which declares what a language should be like.

  3. Linguistic prescription - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic prescription [a] is the establishment of rules defining preferred usage of language, [1] [2] including rules of spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Linguistic prescriptivism may aim to establish a standard language , teach what a particular society or sector of a society perceives as a correct or ...

  4. Grammar - Wikipedia

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    A fully revealed grammar, which describes the grammatical constructions of a particular speech type in great detail is called descriptive grammar. This kind of linguistic description contrasts with linguistic prescription, a plan to marginalize some constructions while codifying others, either absolutely or in the framework of a standard language.

  5. Prescription and description - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic prescription#Prescription and description To a section : This is a redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject. For redirects to embedded anchors on a page, use {{ R to anchor }} instead .

  6. Talk:Fewer versus less - Wikipedia

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    8 Would preference vs. preference work better than prescription vs. description? 1 comment. Toggle the table of contents. Talk ...

  7. Language assessment - Wikipedia

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    Language assessment or language testing is a field of study under the umbrella of applied linguistics.Its main focus is the assessment of first, second or other language in the school, college, or university context; assessment of language use in the workplace; and assessment of language in the immigration, citizenship, and asylum contexts. [1]

  8. A Guide to Costco Pharmacy’s Mail Order Program - AOL

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    There are multiple delivery time options for Costco's mail order pharmacy program. Free shipping could take anywhere from 6 to 14 days to receive a prescription. For 2 to 5 day delivery, cost is ...

  9. Text linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems.Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars.The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a point in which text is viewed in much broader terms that go beyond a mere extension of traditional grammar towards an entire text.