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Watch out! Thundergoats are dropping in and making sentences with their magic hammers. Your task? Make the sentences more interesting using adverbs and adverbial phrases.
The sheer awkwardness of the idea that English should not end sentences with prepositions is captured in the fact Lowth himself wrote, when arguing against it, “This is an idiom which our ...
Discover essential English grammar rules for beginners. Learn about sentence structure, parts of speech, tenses, and more to improve your language skills.
A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons—those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech—don’t help and may even hinder students’ efforts to ...
The idea that sentences can end with a preposition has become a point of contention in the replies to a tongue-in-cheek social media post from dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.
Research into grammar suggests that a significant proportion of native English speakers are unable to understand some basic sentences. The findings - which undermine the assumption that all ...
Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor.
How long ago was your Year 6 SATs grammar test? See how much you remember by answering this tricky question which challenges you to add a semi-colon to the sentence ...
Re-frame of mind: Do our brains have a built-in sense of ‘grammar’? Based on years of research, Yale’s George Dragoi argues that our brains develop a cellular template soon after birth that defines ...
The new curriculum puts an emphasis on punctuation, sentence structure and grammar in English, and a new maths syllabus will also be released.