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Descriptive books try to describe the grammatical system that underlies the way people actually speak and write the language. That's what our book aims to do: we want to describe what Standard English is like.
Prescriptive books aim to tell people how they should speak and write - to give advice on how to use the language. They typically take the form ofusage manuals, though school textbook treatments of grammar also tend to be prescriptive.
In principle you could imagine descriptive and prescriptive approaches not being in conflict at all: the descriptive grammar books would explain what the language is like, and the prescriptive ones would tell you how to avoid mistakes when using it. Not making mistakes would mean using the language in a way that agreed with the descriptive account. The two kinds of book could agree on the facts. And indeed there are some very good usage books based on thorough descriptive research into how Standard English is spoken and written. But there is also a long tradition of prescriptive works that are deeply flawed: they simply don't represent things correctly or coherently, and some of their advice is bad advice.
这三段是那篇阅读的开头。
下面一段详细讲了那个Flaw. 举了a1, a2, b1, b2的句子。(a1, b1都是语法正错的句子, a2, b2是人们口头也会用的兔子) 这里有考题的
有几个选项: 就是上面的a1,a2,b1,b2两两组合问是gramatically correct 还是incorrect.
比如 a1,a2都是gramatically correct
最后还有一段总结段。
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