Many students returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was overhauled to include the “explicit teaching of grammar, sentence structure ...

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 ...

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 ...

When combining two complete sentences with a conjunction ("and," "but," "or," "for," or "yet"), precede the conjunction with a comma. Example: Still, the sun is slowly getting brighter and hotter, and ...

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 ...

Teaching English through stories is a powerful and effective way to help students learn the language naturally. Instead of ...

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

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: ...

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, ...