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 ...
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, ...
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.
That or which? Lie or lay? And where does that pesky comma go? The woman — or girl — who’s built a personal empire around guiding students and professionals through the thickets of grammar and usage ...
A Hong Kong parent writes: it really frustrates me that my Year Six son cannot use apostrophes correctly. The teaching of the English language appears very arbitrary these days, and it seems that ...
David Jesson has received funding from The Specialist Schools & Academies Trust; Audit Commision, The Educational Endowment Foundation and also from various charitable organisations such as The Church ...
Class 10 English Grammar Repeated Questions: Find here the class 10 English Grammar questions which are frequently asked in CBSE board exams. We have provided here the most repeated questions. These ...
The chief of Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, has said that grammar schools do not boost social mobility because they are 'stuffed full' of middle-class children. He is right and this is why: because ...