“Every land is Grammar Land. Every man obeys its laws.” Oh, how we wish it were so! This is the cheerful decree printed on the cover of M. L. Nesbitt’s classic “Grammar-Land: Grammar in Fun for the ...

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 ...

I’m an English and journalism double major, a copy editor here at the newspaper and the go-to person in my friend group whenever anyone needs something edited. Understanding grammar is a necessity for ...

PORT HADLOCK — She could be called the grammar girl. But what she really likes to talk about is passion. Martha Brockenbrough, founder of National Grammar Day (every March 4) and author of five books ...

Grammar is essential to our linguistic understanding. Why? Individual words carry the meaning of the sentence, but it is grammar that puts the words in relation to each other and in their proper place ...

Catholic schools are outperforming all non-denominational schools at GCSE level, it can be revealed. Five Catholic voluntary grammar schools have claimed the coveted top slot in this year's Belfast ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How should we teach grammar to students? Our students need to learn grammar, but the real question is how to teach it in ways that don’t bore them out of their minds.

HAPPY National Grammar Day, everyone. Today's offering is only marginally on grammar. We've asked "What is grammar anyway?" here at Johnson. The layperson would almost certainly answer "those ...

The semicolon has been described as a “graceful pause” in writing. But this graceful punctuation mark is being forgotten. Mark Lasswell wrote a recent piece on the semicolon and why it’s fading away ...

Of the several friends I have doing the online dating thing, one of their biggest complaints, aside from the on slot of inappropriate messages from men, is the poor grammar in a lot of the profiles.