bardzo prosze o wyjasnienie mi tego cwiczenia. Ta sa pytania juz z odpowiedziami.Wiem co oznaczaja pojecia prescriptive i descriptive ale nie rozumiem jak to zaaplikowac do cwiczen.
English Theoretical Module Practice
This is an exercise on prescriptive and descriptive acceptability.
Please note that your real exam papers will include sentences akin to the following (i.e. based on the same principles, although couched in slightly different words).
Are the following sentences acceptable prescriptively and/or descriptively? (Use Y=yes; N=no) Rewrite the unacceptable ones in a prescriptively satisfactory form.
(Solutions in blue)
Descr. Prescr.
1] The data was anything but satisfactory.
y N
The data were anything but satisfactory.
2] The chairman felt badly about the recent developments. Y N
The chairman felt bad about the recent developments.
3] They should look up it in the OED. N N
They should look it up in the OED.
4] They wanted to quickly get over it. Y N
They wanted to get over it quickly.
5] She whipped herself into a frenzy over utterly negligible details. Y Y
6] Mr Anderson demanded that the local committee be dissolved. Y Y
7] He just ain’t got no stamina. Y N
He just hasn’t got any stamina.
z gory dziekuje!!!!