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focused on setting or recommending standards for what is considered correct or usual
- Normative grammar outlines the proper rules of language.
- The study proposed normative guidelines for workplace behavior.
- Normative ethics provides frameworks for determining right and wrong.
- Normative standards shape how societies define acceptable actions.
- The professor taught normative principles for academic writing.
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based on established standards or what is typical
- Normative behavior includes following social etiquette.
- Normative actions reflect the expectations of a culture.
- His normative behavior at the meeting impressed his colleagues.
- The study observed normative patterns in group dynamics.
- The teacher encouraged normative classroom conduct.