Getting sentence structure right, is crucial in being able to communicate what you're trying to say in writing. Sentence structure includes: ...

Introduction to grammar Grammar is the system for organising a language. Grammar allows us to structure our sentences and even our thoughts and ideas.

Kieran Mackle is joined by former primary headteacher and English SLE, Adam Lowing, to talk about the DfE's new Writing ...

Five educators share instructional strategies for engaging and effective grammar instruction.

The trick is getting them interested in commas and sentence structure. An avid reader and writer, Jenny Baranick knew good grammar organically but at first she stumbled in trying to explain it.

The grammar we are constructing here only goes as far as the phonological component we which call P-structure. We are not attempted to interpret a string at this time. Currently it is assumed that ...

In educational terms, Jackson, 30, is as daring as the scientists who revived the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park." She is diagramming sentences, a method for teaching grammar that the National ...

Students pored over their own copies of the excerpt, heads bent, highlighting sentences in different colors to demarcate different parts of the paragraph structure—the thesis and supporting details.

A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons—those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech—don’t help and may even hinder students’ efforts to ...

Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor.