Generative Syntax 1.1: Prescriptive and Descriptive Rules
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2015
- Prof Caroline Heycock looks at the difference between prescriptive and descriptive grammar rules.
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In 'He decided to quickly leave the room' 'quickly' modifies 'leave', not 'decided', so the "correct" equivalent of 'He decided to quickly leave the room' would be 'He decided to leave the room quickly', and not 'He decided quickly to leave the room'.
"He decided quickly to leave the room" and "He decided to leave the room quickly" are both correct
But in the case of "He decided quickly to leave the room" it is stressing that he made a quick decision. For example, if he walked into a loud room and instantly turned around because he didn't like the noise, his decision was quick. Even if he left slowly, he decided quickly that he didn't want to be there. If you say "He decided to leave the room quickly" it is stresses more the fact that his movement was quick and not the decision so either sentence could be right depending on which action was quick
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Where do we draw the line? Do descriptivists have to acknowledge and accept things like 's and s (the possessive marker being used incorrectly) or they're/their/there being used interchangeably and devise new rules to allow them?
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necesitaria una definicion de lo que es prescriptive and descriptive. por favor
Sorry to ask this - but when I watched this - was the audio out of sync with the visual? Anyone else got that?
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What is then the difference between "He quickly decided to leave the room." and "He decided quickly to leave the room." Written in these ways, it sounds the same to me, but we are talking about the action of making a decision. What about the action of leaving the room in a fast way rather than thinking in a fast way to make a decision. That first mind blowing rule has gotten me confused.
"He quickly decided to leave the room" suggest he made a decision quickly, "He decided quickly to leave the room." suggests he made a quick exit. the adverb comes before the verb it affects.
Thanks for the answer, I get it now. :)
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Ah! The rule that every good grammar course reminds us to forget about...
10:25 If we're asking about the book, I don' think this is the right question to ask. The correct one would be "WHAT did Anna read?" → "a book". Your question asks about something that isn't there in the original sentence: WHICH book? There's only one book! There's no "which". The book has not been described, it doesn't have any special properties you could ask about.
Ending a sentence with a prepositions is UNGRAMMATICAL but NOT COLLOQUIAL. It is ungrammatical because it BREAKS THE RULES. Is that what we can describe for the question asked?
It is NOT ungrammatical to end a sentence with a preposition. I can still perfectly understand "Which student did you talk to?" Therefore, it is grammatical. If someone were to ask me, "Talk you did which student to?" out of the blue, then I would not be able to understand the question, thus making it ungrammatical. The grammaticality of a statement is largely dependent on whether the speaker and listener both understand the statement. Ending a sentence with a preposition is problematic stylistically, not grammatically. And yes, sentence-final prepositions are more common in colloquial speech than in formal speech.