Example sentences for: prescriptive

How can you use “prescriptive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Generally anti-elitist and anti-authoritarian by declaration, feminist alterers of language find themselves corralled with prescriptive grammarians and linguists.

  • Bodine analyzes the ways in which (male) grammarians (both descriptive and prescriptive) have since the seventeenth century sought to establish he as the sex-indefinite pronoun despite evidence that actual usage consistently contradicts that.

  • Diversities in corporate missions, structures, cultures, and capabilities prohibit a prescriptive approach to information management leadership.

  • One could argue, charitably, that the movie is meant to be prescriptive, that Barker intends for us to regard the ways in which his subjects delude themselves and thereby learn to see through our own self-delusions.

  • Unfortunately, that leads to inconsistencies, for dictionaries report what they find and are not intended as sources of prescriptive decisions.


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