Which of the following is not a position taken by structural linguists? Grammar constitutes a set of patterns common to a given community. Each language or dialect has its own patterns. Analysis and description of a language must conform to scientific theory. Grammatical structure offers influence to words, given the context.

When we analize the options in that statement, we can see that the one that is not a common position taken by linguist is that Analysis and description of language must conform to scientific theory. This statement goes against the grammar, dialect and culture because are the linguistics, and not other scientific sources, which determines specific things about a language. Scientist are not used to do this