Not every academic is a grammar geek. Yet most of us have pet peeves that tend to irk us when we spot them in our students’ work. And we’re spotting them more than ever, thanks to the hit that ...

English has many grammar rules, and it can be tough for new English as a second language (ESL) teachers to know which to teach first. ESL teachers may also want to use a grammar checklist to ensure ...

We call the verbs that end with MASU "the MASU-form of verbs." We use the MASU-form, when we speak politely. To make it a negative, we change MASU to MASEN. So, YOMIMASU (to read) becomes YOMIMASEN.

Good grammar lessons help children become better writers, and you don’t need to know what a fronted adverbial is to help One unanticipated consequence of school closures and remote learning has been a ...

In Lesson 16, you learned to express more than one action in one sentence by linking the TE-form of verbs. If you add the particle KARA (after), after the TE-form of verbs, you can make it clear that ...