I came across a rather sad post on a message board the other day. “I feel insecure because someone made fun of my less than perfect grammar. What’s the best way to improve it?” This post led me to ...

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No platform shoes for pedants. Pavel Savchuk/www.shutterstock.com Language pedants who take pleasure in policing other people’s use of grammar often have an air of respectability about them, but it’s ...

Children can be left confused and unable to write accurate sentences because of "uncertain" grammar teaching, experts have warned. But confident teachers can enable students to use their grammar ...

GRAMMAR is a strange and wonderful thing. It is also fuzzy. At least the word "grammar" is. So fuzzy, in fact, that linguists rarely invoke it, other than in the broad meaning of "language". They tend ...

Sticklers beware. The British Library is hosting it’s English Grammar Day, a day to finely split hairs over split infinitives, apostrophe’s (sic, sic, sic), and Oxford commas (sick!). Yes, in the case ...

One of the reasons that online discussions of grammar are either sterile or acrimonious is that some participants are not really interested in grammar, but rather come to the discussion seeking ...