Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.
What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
Prose is all about embellishing and describing.
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
Statistics is the grammar of science.