It’s been a while, my friends. Over a year, in fact, since this Grammar Guru took a long-weekend jaunt to London for a little ...

Generations of Indians have grown up studying Wren & Martin’s grammar but the text is largely unknown in Britain, where the subject wasn’t taught in schools until recently, and now it’s so difficult ...

In her Oct. 17, 2007, letter to the editor about my online Commentary “No Wiz at Grammar” (Sept. 24, 2007), Lorraine S. Caplan states that the British “consider the comma to be an appropriate ...

Learn about English grammar with linguamarina! This episode focuses on nouns without plural form. Improve your English ...

You might find the following test questions from the 1940s and 50s extremely difficult. They come from the 11 Plus entrance exams, a entrance exam issued by British grammar schools 60 years ago. The ...

The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s new book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, is an eloquent defense of a “live and let live” approach to English. Well, you know what they say about ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...

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