Notice that this student used not one, not two, but eight perfectly grammatical sentences to say that their grammar is bad — so bad that it’s standing in the way of pursuing dreams in a scientific ...

Universal Grammar (UG) allows a multitude of devices that can be drawn on to express focus. The child's task is to reconcile the possible UG options with the positive data provided by the target ...

A sentence in the active voice typically has the formation of Subject Verb Object SVO. The verb needs to be in agreement with the subject for proper grammar formation. We have certain rules to ...

Like the subject, the object is usually a noun (‘the piano’) or a noun phrase, (‘the big, black piano’). Verbs that take objects describe some kind of action rather than a state of being.

In his review (Books, Sept. 27) of N.M. Gwynne’s “Gwynne’s Grammar” and Steven Pinker’s “The Sense of Style,” which draws the usual distinction between the “Prescriptivists” like Mr. Gwynne, for whom ...

Oakwood Park Grammar School says it has a funding shortfall The head of a grammar school in Maidstone has said he has had to cut four subjects from the curriculum, because of funding pressures. From ...