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 ...

THE government stepped up the SATs a few years ago, making the tests more rigorous than ever. But are you able to correctly answer the exam questions that are being put to the country’s Year Sixes? In ...

Texting may cause young people to forget how to use grammar, according to a study. Researchers at Penn State University gave middle school pupils a grammar test consisting only of things they had ...