Grammar has been getting attention in the media lately, and for good reason. Because I am over 50 and I was raised by grammar sticklers, I am sympathetic to managers’ complaints about rampant grammar ...

I’ve talked about the costs of poor grammar before. There are no good excuses. The world has two billion English writers, according to Brad Hoover, CEO of Top Ten Reviews #1 ranked grammar software ...

The English language, even for a native English speaker, is not an exact science. Despite our best efforts to learn how to speak and type in grade school, English is just sort of one of those things ...

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, in Birmingham, has a quota of 25% of places for pupils from the poorest families A quarter of England's state grammar schools still let in hardly any poorer ...

Let’s be honest—grammar isn’t the most exciting topic. It reminds most of us of red marks on school essays or confusing rules that seem to trip us up. But what if grammar wasn’t about rules at ...

You should of known better! Actually, you should HAVE known better about these common grammar pet peeves that drive people crazy. Grammar errors are easy to miss, and they’re often habitual. However, ...

When The Independent published Helen Coffey’s passionate eulogy for the semicolon – that misunderstood and underappreciated jewel of English punctuation – the reaction from our readers was ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...

Good grammar may have came and went. Maybe you've winced at the decline of the past participle. Or folks writing and saying "he had sank" and "she would have went." Perhaps it was the singer Gotye ...

A quarter of England's state grammar schools still let in hardly any poorer children, despite most trying to improve their admissions policies, according to BBC analysis. Out of 160 grammar schools, ...