If you ever want to clear a room, a single word will usually do the trick: grammar. For anyone who had a hypercritical English teacher or a particularly persnickety aunt — and that’s a lot of us — the ...

Grammar jargon is enough to turn most people off of grammar forever. One ill-timed utterance of a term like "doubly transitive post-prepositional verb" and you might never take an interest in the ...

A lot of adults gave up on grammar long ago. They didn’t learn as much as they would have liked in school. Now there’s too much too learn. Amid a sea of gibberish about sentence-ending prepositions, ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Last week, we discussed a few “rules” of grammar and usage, asking whether it was time to let them go. We ...

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 ...

Millions of parents will get first-hand experience in teaching over these next few weeks with schools across the UK closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. A-levels, GCSEs and BTEC exams have already ...

Dominic Wyse received funding from the Nuffield Foundation for the Grammar and Writing research. He also currently receives funding from The Helen Hamlyn Trust and The Leverhulme Trust. He has also ...