The proper use of 'too, to and two' and 'they're, their and there' are just some of the grammatical rules drummed into us from a very young age. And yet, in a world where LOL and BRB are as ...

National Grammar Day 2024 Quiz: Every year, National Grammar Day is celebrated on March 4. The day was established in 2008 by Martha Brockenbrough, the founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good ...

The recent news that Prime Minister Theresa May is planning on lifting the Grammar School ban has elicited a strong reaction from opposition parties. Initially banned in 1998 by the then Prime ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Humans are able to learn language so quickly because some knowledge of grammar is hardwired into our brains, said linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky fifty years ago. In other words, we know some of ...