Group #1
1. A. “Each language has its own scheme. Everything depends on the formal demarcations which it recognizes.”
Category: Descriptive. It belongs to the descriptive category because it is describing language.
B. “The language faculty is a component of the mind/brain, part of the human biological endowment. Presented with data, the child . . . forms a language, a computational system of some kind that provides structured representations of linguistic expressions that determine their sound and meaning.”
Category: Contextual. The sentence talks about the mind and brain.
C. “In colloquial speech, like is as sometimes used as a conjunction . . . , but cultured speakers prefer as, as if, or as though.”
Category: Prescriptive. The sentence talks about speech etiquette.
D. “Linguists have increasingly realized that the context of an utterance plays an important part in determining its meaning, as do beliefs that are shared by a speaker and a hearer.”
Category: Generative. The definition depends on the context, therefore the definition transforms.
E. “The material in the exercises in correcting substandard English comes from . . .” (Preface to grammar book).
Category: Prescriptive. The sentence focuses on correcting substandard English.
F. Someone who says ‘he don’t’ for ‘he doesn’t’ has a systematic way of relating sound and meaning.”
Category: Prescriptive. It is about learning school grammar and how it should be applied in educational settings.
G. “In keeping with all these excellent qualities would you please see that the grammar used in describing your clothing is of equal quality. I am sure you are quite aware that a garment doesn’t ‘wash easy.’ Is this use of adjectives in the place of adverbs an affectation or is it a stylistic quirk?”
Category: Generative. It is a sentence that is describing a grammatical rule that should biologically be known
Patrick Hogan:
Grammar is the correct format of how we communicate the English language.
Category: Contextual. It is describing a grammatical rule and how it applies.
Zack Walston: Grammar is the proper use of periods, commas, hyphens, etc. It also is the correct spelling of words.
Category: Descriptive. It is describing “structural” grammar.
Mandie: Grammar is being able to use words in the correct way
Category: Prescriptive. It is being able to use “school” grammar.
Nick Watson, Mike Murphy, Heather Musgrave, Lauren McCly, Kenneth Lemmie, Zack Walston, Ashley Burks
B) is generative, because it talks about the mind of a child.
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D) is clearly contextual; it even uses the word "context."