Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month.Become a Plus Member What tools does a grammarian need? A brain helps, and so does a computer, but ...

Man in striped blue shirt and glasses: A sentence should open, introduce a subject, deal with that subject and then come to a conclusion. Man in blue jumper and hat: Start, middle and end. Man in ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. An overhaul to the way high school students are taught grammar, punctuation and sentence structure ...

You’ve probably heard the old story about the pedant who dared to tinker with Winston Churchill’s writing because the great man had ended a sentence with a preposition. Churchill’s scribbled response: ...

A survey from Signs.com reminds us of something we all know but love to pretend isn’t important: Your spelling and grammar skills can change the way people look at you – for better or worse. The ...

Mobile phone use and the popularity of social networks are often blamed for students who don't possess a good understanding of grammar. However, can we truly blame technology for poor writing skills, ...

For more than a decade, children in Year 6—the final year of elementary school in England—have taken the grammar, punctuation ...