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prescriptive grammar
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grammar guided by normative principles for the purpose of establishing standards
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descriptive grammar
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describes the way people speak in everyday situations
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dialect
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a variety of English
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regionalism
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language usage that varies from region of the country to another
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structuralism
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they described language on its own terms, examining language based on form and function; looked at English in a systemic way
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transformational grammar
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started with Chomsky's Syntactic Structure; tried to describe the internal grammar system
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linguistic etiquette
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social implications of language usage
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phonology
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the sound system of a language
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morphology
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the systematic combination of sounds into meaningful units and words
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syntax
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the systematic combination of words into meaningful phrase structures and sentence patterns
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