‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

Adding emphasis: 'what' cleft sentences. Sometimes there's a particular part of a sentence that you really want to stress. It might be because it's new information or because it's the most interesting ...

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.

John Munro. has in the past been a chief investigator on ARC-funded projects Many students returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was ...

Psychologists in the UK have found that children as young as two years old have an understanding of complex grammar even before they have learned to speak in full sentences. Psychologists at the ...

How do you avoid grammar snafus on the web? You need to learn basic capitalization rules for online writing. Keep this list of rules close just in case. You sit down to write an amazing post for your ...

When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a ...

A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons—those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech—don’t help and may even hinder students’ efforts to become better ...