GRAMMAR is a strange and wonderful thing. It is also fuzzy. At least the word "grammar" is. So fuzzy, in fact, that linguists rarely invoke it, other than in the broad meaning of "language". They tend ...

Teaching grammar in schools is a waste of time, a new Government-funded study has claimed. A full stop for grammar? The research, led by Prof Richard Andrews, of York University, found no evidence ...

Michelle Sheehan has in the past received funding from the British Academy and Language Acts and Worldmaking (OWRI). People get corrected on their language all the time. With written language, this is ...

Budgerigars are grammar pedants too. Just like us, these parrots use the grammatical structure of unfamiliar phrases to work out what they mean. There is evidence that some birds pay attention to the ...