Definition & Meaning | English word PRESCRIPTIVISTS
PRESCRIPTIVISTS
Definitions of PRESCRIPTIVISTS
- plural of prescriptivist.
Number of letters
15
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using PRESCRIPTIVISTS in a Sentence
- According to the view of many English-language prescriptivists, including influential 18th-century grammarian Robert Lowth, than is exclusively a conjunction and therefore takes either nominative (or subjective) or oblique (or objective) pronouns, depending on context, rather than exclusively oblique pronouns as prepositions do.
- Howard comments that Brown collected words as others collect porcelain, and was the most good-humoured of prescriptivists, but was nevertheless "incorrigibly convinced that there existed such a thing as correct English, and that it was to be preferred to the other kind".
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