Prescription and description

In linguistics, prescription is the laying down or prescribing of normative rules for a language. A milder form of prescriptivism makes "recommendations" for good language useage. This is in contrast to the description of a language, which simply describes how that language is used in practice.

Topics in English usage prescription

• ain't
• null comparative
• comparison of absolute adjectives
• deprecated
• double negative
• serial comma
• singular they
• split infinitive
• superlative of two
• preposition