Rob Drummond receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Project grant RPG-2014-059 - 'Expressing inner-city youth identity through multicultural urban British English'. Language pedants who take ...

Grammar. It's a beautiful thing, or a thing that is beautiful. In its honor there is National Grammar Day, a day that grammarians have been celebrating since 2008, as instituted by Martha ...

Simon Burgess receives funding from the ESRC. Lindsey Macmillan and Matt Dickson do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

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BBC News answers some of the key questions about grammar schools and poses some 11-plus questions for readers to tackle. Grammar schools are state secondary schools that select their pupils by means ...

GRAMMAR is a strange and wonderful thing. It is also fuzzy. At least the word "grammar" is. So fuzzy, in fact, that linguists rarely invoke it, other than in the broad meaning of "language". They tend ...

THE ancient notion of English grammar was one of certain categories of words, and certain rules for their proper use. This is still the idea implied in most of the dictionary definitions of the word.

Language pedants who take pleasure in policing other people’s use of grammar often have an air of respectability about them, but it’s usually a sheen hiding something more pernicious. Rather than ...

Unlike non-selective comprehensives, grammars are state-funded secondary schools that admit pupils based on their academic ability. Students are offered places after sitting exams which test skills ...