Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or concepts, ...

Regarding the editorial “Rethink college remedial classes”: As an English instructor who has taught both remedial and introductory writing at the University of Washington, I can testify from my ...

The headmaster of the King Edward VI Foundation in Birmingham says access to private tutors is leading to a 'distortion' of grammar schools in favour of rich families John Claughton, Chief Master of ...