1. Is descriptive grammar just a question of how frequent something occurs? 2. Some descriptive grammars treat adverbial and adjectival participles as distinct transgressives. 3. :Descriptive grammar doesn't stand still; it advances as the study of language advances. 4. Descriptive grammar in Arabic ( & lrm;,'rules'), underwent development in the late 8th century.5. :: If descriptive grammar is our guiding light, then the subjunctive is at least obsolescent. 6. Descriptive grammars were rarely used in Classical Greece or in Latin through the Medieval period.7. The article stresses that the average grammar teaching suffers from a confusion of historical and descriptive grammar . 8. Not all descriptive grammars recognize tritransitive verbs. 9. A fully explicit grammar that exhaustively describes the grammatical constructions of a language is called a descriptive grammar . 10. John Hinds, author of " Japanese : Descriptive Grammar ", describes this problem as " a major disadvantage ."