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1. Descriptive grammar describes how a language is actually used by native speakers, focusing on patterns in syntax, morphology, and phonology. Prescriptive grammar prescribes how a language should be used according to established rules. 2. Prescriptive grammar rules developed from 17th-18th century scholars who viewed Latin as the perfect language and imposed Latin rules onto English, despite many rules not reflecting actual English usage. 3. While prescriptive rules do not describe natural language, t

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