Pedants, rejoice – National Grammar Day is here! But let’s think carefully about what exactly it is we’re celebrating Yippee (or groan)! It’s National Grammar Day again. You didn’t know? Me neither, ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.

It may be a first: a grammar textbook that complains about grammar textbooks. “There is a long tradition of prescriptive [books] that are deeply flawed: They simply don’t represent things correctly or ...

November 12, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Though some might treat grammar as dead serious business, that's not a particularly fun way to learn it. Brush ...

Competition between the ‘Yankees’ and ‘Limeys’ (derogatory terms) spanning decades is, to a larger extent, responsible for the American and British versions of the English language. Out of this ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Why teach grammar in school? Melbourne University ...