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A leading voice in education has asked adults to see how they fare with tricky grammar questions that schoolchildren as young as 11 face. Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of ...

A back-to-basics test of grammar and punctuation for all 11-year-olds has been unveiled by Michael Gove in a drive to raise standards in primary schools. Up to 600,000 pupils a year, starting from ...

‘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 ...

Take a look at sample questions from the new "back-to-basics" grammar test to be sat by 11-year-old pupils from next summer in primary schools. By Andrew Marszal 17 December 2012 • 12:00am Grammar ...

Practise forming regular verbs in past, present and future. Welcome to Camp GOAT — the destination for fancy time-travelling goats and their friends. Join the camp activities, but remember that you ...