What is the difference between generative and transformational grammar?
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Transformational refers to the ability of languages to transform sentences, such as from active to passive, indicative to interrogative etc. Generative refers to how we apply rules to ‘generate’, (produce sentences). Generative rules describe sentences rather than confine them.