National Grammar Day 2024 Quiz: Every year, National Grammar Day is celebrated on March 4. The day was established in 2008 by Martha Brockenbrough, the founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good ...

Do you go bananas when someone puts an apostrophe in the wrong place? Or are you a bit unsure about when to use 'it's' and 'its'? What about 'me' and 'I'? This quiz will test your true grasp of ...

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When The Independent published Helen Coffey’s passionate eulogy for the semicolon – that misunderstood and underappreciated jewel of English punctuation – the reaction from our readers was ...

"Who I see" should be “whom I see”. This is because “whom” is the object in the subsidiary clause “whom I see”, and must therefore be in the accusative or objective case. 4. “Near” is an adverb ...

The recent news that Prime Minister Theresa May is planning on lifting the Grammar School ban has elicited a strong reaction from opposition parties. Initially banned in 1998 by the then Prime ...

The recent news that Prime Minister Theresa May is planning on lifting the Grammar School ban has elicited a strong reaction from opposition parties. Initially banned in 1998 by the then Prime ...