{"id":30144,"date":"2018-02-19T22:37:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=30144"},"modified":"2018-02-19T22:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T22:37:02","slug":"english-what-does-normative-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-normative-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English: what does <i>normative<\/i> mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor defines <i>normative<\/i>.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;color:ivory;background-color:#8989ff;padding:16px;white-space:pre-wrap\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">normative (adj):<\/span><\/p>\n<p>either setting a standard or following one.<\/p>\n<p>The principal watched students perform skateboard tricks in the hall. He observed that, while spectacular, their behaviour wasn&#8217;t normative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine, et al. <i>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/i>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor defines normative. normative (adj): either setting a standard or following one. The principal watched students perform skateboard tricks in the hall. He observed that, while spectacular, their behaviour wasn&#8217;t normative. Source: Barber, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-normative-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: what does <i>normative<\/i> mean?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[2738,2737],"class_list":["post-30144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-uncategorized","tag-normative-in-a-sentence","tag-what-does-normative-mean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30144"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30156,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30144\/revisions\/30156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}