If you want to see more children fail to acquire Standard English, go ahead with your programme of primary school grammar tests I should have guessed that if Michael Gove was going to reply to one of ...

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 ...

A funny thing happens to languages that have huge numbers of speakers: over time, they seem to simplify. They lose all the fiddly bits that make languages like Hungarian so incredibly hard to learn, ...