Knowing how to write a formal letter is a very important life skill. Although a lot of our day-to-day written communication is by email, text message or social media, there are many times you will ...

Formal grammar is not an effective way of teaching children to write, say researchers at the University of York. The government-funded study claims this resolves the longstanding debate as to whether ...

Formal grammar was taken out of the Australian curriculum in the mid-1970s – and some of us have catching up to do “It’s a special kind of person who attends this class on a weekend,” says our grammar ...

Schools are wasting their time teaching children the rules of English grammar because there is no evidence that it has any impact on pupils' writing skills, a government-funded study has concluded.