Have you ever written “everyday” when what you really mean is “every day?” It’s an everyday error that you might notice every day. Do you see the difference ...

THE ancient notion of English grammar was one of certain categories of words, and certain rules for their proper use. This is still the idea implied in most of the dictionary definitions of the word.

Everyone who has texted or spent even a tiny amount of time on popular social media sites knows how the internet has seemingly lowered the standards of spelling and grammar across the board. Random ...

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 ...

If you misuse a comma or mix up "your and you're," don't expect to get hired by iFixit's Kyle Wiens. He's not the only stickler—a growing number of employers are adopting a zero tolerance approach to ...

New Hope, Pennsylvania — What would you think if you were out walking, shopping or doing some other gerund, and out of nowhere a woman on the street prepositions you — "This is my grammar table." You ...

Senior Lecturer in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra I’m going to put it out there - most teachers don’t know enough about how the English language works [aka grammar], and this ...

If you have teens, you’ve probably grown accustomed to seeing them lighted by the glow of a phone screen. Well, there’s some good and bad news coming from the hours they spend speed-tapping notes to ...

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Grammar schools are “horror movie monsters” to their detractors and “beacons of excellence” to their defenders. From either perspective, the main issue is the role these schools play in ‘social ...