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Learn and revise sentence types and clauses, nouns, adjectives and verbs with this BBC Bitesize GCSE English Language (OCR) study guide.
Regarding the editorial “Rethink college remedial classes”: As an English instructor who has taught both remedial and introductory writing at the University of Washington, I can testify from ...
Insisting upon proper English grammar and spelling is not “elitist”; it’s just good sense.
Few would deny that conventional spelling and grammar are being eroded with ‘text speak’ and short cuts used in social networking, but good schools and teachers can still impart grammar ...
Voices The Independent View Grammar schools are a racket that offers the middle classes a public school education for free Ms May is right to observe that we have quietly but clearly shifted ...
Grammar schools should give priority to pupils from poor families to stop them being "distorted" in favour of the middle-classes, according to a leading headmaster.
Grammar schools should lower their entrance exam mark for poorer pupils to stop middle classes dominating, the chair of the education select committee has said.