It's quite probable that, for many students, the first time they hear about the present or past perfect (pluperfect), is in a foreign language class. Suddenly, new grammatical terminology appears, ...

Good grammar lessons help children become better writers, and you don’t need to know what a fronted adverbial is to help One unanticipated consequence of school closures and remote learning has been a ...

How sad to see the waste of time that is grammatical terminology making a comeback (Experts on the frontline in fight over ‘fronted adverbials’, 9 May). I spent years as a head of English and then as ...

Grammar jargon is enough to turn most people off of grammar forever. One ill-timed utterance of a term like "doubly transitive post-prepositional verb" and you might never take an interest in the ...

I have been wondering how grammar terms received their names. Some of the origins are baffling. A noun, that part of speech that names people, places and things, comes from the Latin word "nomen," ...

In this resource, we explore how grammar can be taught rhetorically where the focus is on the learner understanding the writing situation, making effective choices while constructing sentences, ...

English teachers who went to school when grammar was not on the curriculum struggle to teach it, research shows. A review of international studies on the effective teaching of complex writing says ...