Not every academic is a grammar geek. Yet most of us have pet peeves that tend to irk us when we spot them in our students’ work. And we’re spotting them more than ever, thanks to the hit that ...

A few weeks ago, I cited several TV shows and movies that provided, of all things, grammar lessons. Then I asked you to send me more examples. As Gomer Pyle might have said, “Goll-ee!” Cindy Carlin ...

In her small classroom at Gaithersburg High School, English teacher Robyn Jackson draws a complicated pattern of horizontal and diagonal lines on the blackboard. Her students bend over their notebooks ...

OUR lesson on sentence errors continues next week. Today, our focus is on expressions that are repetitive and redundant. Oftentimes in writing, some individuals use words that may be termed ...

Dave Robles, an elementary school teacher from New York City, uses rap beats to help his students learn grammar lessons. Keeping kids' attention is a huge challenge for any teacher. At St. Charles ...

The Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced Thursday. Roy Peter Clark, a writing teacher at the Poynter Institute, offers an essay about how all the big, notable writers in the world once started ...

A Hong Kong parent writes: it really frustrates me that my Year Six son cannot use apostrophes correctly. The teaching of the English language appears very arbitrary these days, and it seems that ...

What do you get when you combine guitar riffs with grammar lessons? A room full of singing, clapping - and at times screaming - elementary students at a concert by The Grammarheads. Get ready. This ...