Discover how studying the breakdown of language following a stroke has finally revealed the hidden machinery of one of ...

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

Let’s be honest—grammar isn’t the most exciting topic. It reminds most of us of red marks on school essays or confusing rules that seem to trip us up. But what if grammar wasn’t about rules at ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How should we teach grammar to students? Our students need to learn grammar, but the real question is how to teach it in ways that don’t bore them out of their minds.

John Munro. has in the past been a chief investigator on ARC-funded projects Many students returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was ...

No doubt about it: Jenny Baranick is driven to improve the current state of our texting-, emailing-, and spell checker-dependent world. Why else navigate through traffic in a 2001 Toyota Corolla sedan ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An overhaul to the way high school students are taught grammar, punctuation and sentence structure will be introduced after a ...

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 become better ...

When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a ...

(CNN) -- Grammar lessons often are associated with high school drudgery -- diagramming sentences and memorizing obscure rules in between passing notes in English class -- but an Arizona technical ...