Does grammar matter?
It can be hard sometimes, when speaking, to remember all of the grammatical rules that guide us when we're writing. When is it right to say "the dog and me" and when should it be "the dog and I"? Does it even matter? Andreea S. Calude dives into the age-old argument between linguistic prescriptivists and descriptivists - who have two very different opinions on the matter.
Answer the following questions:
Can you think of any ways or situations in which prescriptivism is unhelpful?
Give a definition of grammar.
Grammar is a set of recurrent word patterns that helps speakers and writers to both understand and express concepts. What are some of the ways in which grammar tells us something about how we think?
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