You might find the following test questions from the 1940s and 50s extremely difficult. They come from the 11 Plus entrance exams, a entrance exam issued by British grammar schools 60 years ago. The ...

LONDON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- An educator at Britain's Imperial College London says the grammar skills of his country's undergraduates lag behind those of many students from abroad. Bernard Lamb, a reader ...

In her Oct. 17, 2007, letter to the editor about my online Commentary “No Wiz at Grammar” (Sept. 24, 2007), Lorraine S. Caplan states that the British “consider the comma to be an appropriate ...

The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s new book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, is an eloquent defense of a “live and let live” approach to English. Well, you know what they say about ...

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