There are grammar pundits who love their knowledge about the language for the haughty power it affords them: the ability to write corrective letters to the editor and the certain belief there is one ...

When The Independent published Helen Coffey’s passionate eulogy for the semicolon – that misunderstood and underappreciated jewel of English punctuation – the reaction from our readers was ...

It’s science: Hearing bad grammar raises our stress level. I always knew this implicitly, but a recent study from the University of Birmingham shows this explicitly. In a small sample of 41 British ...

If you're looking to feel good about yourself, take this grammar quiz that's currently everywhere on Facebook. The Playbuzz quiz includes 25 questions "testing" your grammar skills. However, there's ...

How human children acquire language-which is so complex and has so many variations- has been one of the biggest questions concerning the language learning process. Fifty years ago, linguist and ...

Toddler's early grammar skills are not inherent but learned, research has found. Children's ability to understand basic grammar early in language development has puzzled researchers for a long time, ...

This spelling and grammar test from the 1980s is so difficult that it is claimed no one can get more than 50 per cent of the answers right. The 20-question quiz promises to leave even the brightest ...