Example sentences for: prescriptive

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

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

  • Nevertheless, regulations consistently focused more on defining the metes and bounds of the permissible than on prescriptive mandates, and their implementation was effected largely through the mechanism of “assurances”—commitments that institutions would faithfully safeguard the specified perimeters of acceptable conduct.

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

  • In addition, other revisions were made to make the final rule less prescriptive and to allow establishments greater flexibility in meeting the requirements.

  • Although according to current prescriptive grammar, animals, especially of unknown sex, should be referred to as it , they practically never are in standard spoken English.


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