Many of you are kind enough to share with me multiple forwarded collections of embarrassing headlines from other newspapers, unfortunate misspellings or captions, punctuation puns and dirty limericks.
RICHMOND, Va. - In an era when students’ social media skills often surpass their writing skills, many American high school students are just not prepared for the rigorous college curriculums that ...
An overhaul to the way high school students are taught grammar, punctuation and sentence structure will be introduced after a decade-long decline in writing standards has left teenagers without vital ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...
Do you fancy yourself as a bit of a walking dictionary? Do you know your pronouns from your passives, your commas from your clauses? We’ve put together a quiz to challenge you on all things grammar ...
Two big things have been happening on the internet, in relation to orthography. New styles have proliferated; and old punctuation marks have begun to develop new meanings. Regular emailers will have ...
Ailing literacy skills across Australia has triggered a major overhaul of one state's education system with grammar and punctuation the areas most in need of improvement. The English syllabus has been ...