Local councils are being asked to do more following a damning new survey that claims children as young as four are regularly using adverbs in general conversation. And far from having no understanding of their meaning or grammatical usage, [read...]
A stickler for the correct use of grammar, English teacher Samantha was aghast when she saw the Bill Withers classic “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone” as Steve’s choice for Monday accompanied by the words ‘Samantha – this is how I feel every time you walk out the door’. [read...]
‘This is not a slope that humanity should be tempted to slip down’ said Worth, ‘though I have to reluctantly admit that I am annoying … oh gods, did I just split an infinitive? [read...]
An engineer from Gloucester has persevered with semicolons despite not receiving any recognition from his colleagues. David Fairly has admitted he wants to progress in his career and fortuitously regularly needs to separate two closely related independent clauses that are not already joined by a coordinating conjunction. [read...]
A national calamity was narrowly averted today when police arrested a secret group of Grammar Nazis in an underground classroom. [read...]
