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释义 | Contents overview correctnesscorrectnesscorrectness 31710399descriptive and prescriptive rulesdescriptive and prescriptive rulesdescriptive rulesprescriptive rules 317.410456prescriptive and descriptive rulesprescriptive and descriptive rulesprescriptive rulesdescriptive rules 317.411399rules: prescriptive and descriptive rules;rules: prescriptive and descriptive rules; prescriptive and descriptive rules 317.4; 11532317 correctnessWhen people say that somebody's language is 'not correct', they may mean several different things.1slips and mistakes: He works in wildlife conversation.People sometimes make slips of the tongue when they are talking.He works in Wildlife Conversation – I mean Conservation.Somebody can use a word wrongly because he or she is unsure of its meaning, or confuses it with another word.You're being very authoritative. (mistake for 'authoritarian')And many people have trouble with spelling and punctuation.The company has doubled it's profits this year. (should be its profits)Foreign learners may also make mistakes with points of grammar that do not cause problems for native speakers.I could not understanding the lecture. (instead of I could not understand …)2dialect forms: I ain't done nothing.Dialect forms are not incorrect, though some people believe they are (316.2); they are simply different. Teachers in British schools often tell children whose dialects have multiple negation, for example, that they are making mistakes if they say things like 'I ain't done nothing', because 'two negatives make a positive' (so I ain't done nothing is supposed to mean 'I have done something'). This is not, of course, the case: in the child's dialect, the sentence means 'I haven't done anything' (like the equivalent in older English and many modern languages). Indeed, if 'two negatives make a positive', then the teacher ought to be quite happy if the child says 'I ain't done nothing to nobody', since logically three negatives must make a negative!Dialect forms are not, therefore, incorrect in themselves. They are, however, out of place in styles where only the standard language is normally used. It would be inappropriate – in fact, incorrect – to use I wants, he don't or a double negative in a school essay, a job application, a newspaper article or a speech at a business conference. In fact, British dialects are rarely written (though Scotland has a tradition of dialect literature which is still very much alive).3divided usage: different from; different toSpeakers of a standard language often differ about small points of usage. Where two different forms are common, people who use one form may claim that theirs is the only 'correct' usage, and that people who use the other form are making mistakes. Some examples from modern English:
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