English Trick of the Day explains important capitalization rules every student must know. Learn when to use capital letters ...

Research into grammar suggests that a significant proportion of native English speakers are unable to understand some basic sentences. The findings - which undermine the assumption that all speakers ...

Who can forget those grammar exercises in which students had to memorize the parts of speech, put commas in the correct places and ferret out the dangling participles? Recent research shows that those ...

Many learners often get confused while choosing between much and many because both words refer to quantity. The key difference depends on the type of noun they describe, which is something students ...

In the year 1712, the essayist Jonathan Swift put forth quite a radical proposal for "Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining" the English tongue. According to Swift, Latin had arrived at "a great ...

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

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