Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you know what a suffix is, or how to distinguish adjectives from adverbs? If you have a six or seven-year-old, the chances are ...

Fiction authors are pretty good at writing sentences with striking images, worded just the right way. We might suppose the images are striking because the author has a striking imagination. But the ...

The bilingual sentence-wise translation in learning English tenses always remains elusive for the students of English as a second language. I frequently quote sentences to expose the incompatibility ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Why teach grammar in school? Melbourne University ...

First, a grammar quiz. Which of these sentences do you think begins the Eric Carle classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar? a) A little egg lay on a leaf in the light of the moon. b) On a leaf, in the ...

In this week’s Tes Podgaogy, we’re joined by Dominic Wyse, a professor of early childhood and primary education at UCL. He discusses his latest research on grammar, and how he believes teachers should ...

Critics claim there is too much focus on grammar in schools – but these linguists argue that teaching grammatical terms has huge benefits for learning According to Dominic Wyse, a professor in early ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and ...