In a fulmination this week at Lingua Franca, “The Decline of Grammar Education,” Geoffrey Pullum points out, quite rightly, that the grammar quizzes posted on the Internet are almost always junk: “The ...

English grammar may look easy at first. But we all make silly errors without even realising it. Most of you write or speak English with confidence. But later you realise a small mistake has flipped ...

One "rule" that many self-appointed experts on writing return to again and again is: "Don't use the passive!" Or, as some puckishly put it, "The passive voice should be avoided." The passive voice is ...

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