Examples of “normative” in a Sentence

adj Relating to a rule or an accepted standard.

• Normative rules in the office say that meetings should start on time.

adj Trying to set out what the rule or standard should be.

• The professor gave a normative account of how citizens ought to behave.
• A normative grammar tells you which forms are considered correct.
• The essay took a normative approach, arguing how schools should treat students.
• A normative claim says what ought to happen, not what does happen.
• The committee wrote a normative guide describing how every team should work.