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Rules vs. Practice—Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammar

March 2, 2012 by Fiction Editor Beth Hill

Does grammar matter? If so, to what degree? Is it more important to be grammatically correct or to write the way people speak today? An exploration of prescriptive and descriptive language and grammar in fiction.

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