Distinguishing Perspective Grammar from Descriptive Grammar

Perspective grammar and Descriptive Grammar
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Perspective grammar and Descriptive Grammar
English language has evolved over the centuries not just amongst the native speakers but also among foreigners. Grammar focuses on arrangement of words in a statement and acceptable arrangement of sound in those words. In supposedly bad grammar, these rules are not adhered to and leads to statements such as ‘I don’t got no time for that’ and ‘they are chillaxing’. There lacks proper arrangement of words in the first statement and the word chillaxing in the second sentences is coined from two words. Grammar is categorized in two groups, perspective and descriptive grammar.
Perspective grammar in English refers to a set of rules that govern what is grammatical and what is non-grammatical whereas descriptive grammar is non-judgmental examination of how English as a language is used. Breaking rules in perspective grammar is considered unacceptable and wrong but breaking descriptive rules does not crumble English empire down into pieces.
In the first and fifth sample sentences of Milroy’s bad grammarCITATION Jen151 \l 1033 (Jenkins, 2015), I would be making a preposition error of ending the statements with prepositions ‘to’ and ‘for’. The reason I would choose to use these is because ‘to whom am I speaking?’ sounds incorrect and so does the fourth statement when said out loud and not just to me but also to the person am speaking to. This latter reason is the same that leads a number of people with the knowledge of correct pronunciation of the word chandelier choose to pronounce it as it is written because not everyone knows the correct pronunciation of the word and incorrect to some is correct. This Milroy supports by saying following ...