alleryAccording to Larry Andrews, which approach do most school teachers tend to take?
APrescriptive
BDescriptive
CPurely historical
DExperimental
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Prescriptive
1. Andrews notes most linguists are descriptive grammarians.
2. Most public school teachers, however, tend to be prescriptive.
3. Descriptive is the linguists' stance; historical and experimental are not mentioned.
_Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic description, Descriptive versus prescriptive linguistics_
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