THE strange thing about grammar is that the native speakers of a language do not need it, at least while learning it as a child. Native speakers instinctively know the rules that govern the use of ...

Signals that Theresa May is in favour of relaxing rules banning the creation of new selective grammar schools in England have provoked robust attacks from opponents of the plan. This included the ...

Edward Heath, the second prime minster to have received a grammar school education (the first was Harold Wilson, who swiftly set about its destruction) And it was a love letter to be read out loud, so ...

When Lynne Truss wrote, in her best-selling 2003 grammar screed Eats, Shoots & Leaves, of “a world of plummeting punctuation standards,” she was (perhaps unwittingly) joining an ancient tradition. How ...

The first grammar school in 50 years - an extension of an existing grammar in Kent - has been approved by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. In a written statement, she insisted the decision was not a ...

National Grammar Day 2024: From date to history, here's all that you need to know about National Grammar Day celebrated every year on March 4. Every year, National Grammar Day is celebrated on March 4 ...

“The semicolon is a place where our anxieties and our aspirations about language, class and education are concentrated, so that in this small mark big ideas are distilled down to a few winking drops ...

Do you remember being taught you should never start your sentences with "And" or "But"? What if I told you that your teachers were wrong and there are lots of other so-called grammar rules that we've ...

Do you remember being taught you should never start your sentences with “And” or “But”? What if I told you that your teachers were wrong and there are lots of other so-called grammar rules that we’ve ...