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1. Prescriptive grammar aims to establish rules and standards for language usage, while descriptive grammar presents the underlying grammar used by actual speakers of a language. 2. Grammatical relations between units in a sentence are called syntactic relations. Words are the smallest meaningful units of language and are classified into lexical and functional categories. 3. Complex words are made up of stems and affixes, while derivation and inflection are processes that build or modify words.
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- Nga Phan
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- EN