It’s a peculiar observation that the more people speak a language, the simpler its grammar tends to be. English and Mandarin, for instance, have notably straightforward structures. On the other hand, ...

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In May, I asked how teachers can address frequent student grammatical mistakes. The response to that post generated a number of great suggestions. But no response went so far as musician-comedian ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.

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University of Liverpool provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Sticklers beware. The British Library is hosting it’s English Grammar Day, a day to finely split hairs over split ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...