The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...
A study published in March suggests what we've all long suspected: People who are obsessed with grammar aren't as nice as the rest of us. For the study, scientists Julie Boland and Robin Queen from ...
Fellow grammar snobs, I feel I must resign from your ranks. Sure, we've had some good times—not just when we judged the masses, but especially when we got the chance to snicker about one another’s ...
Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.
Grammar check in Google Docs is now available in G Suite Basic, Business, and Enterprise editions. How Google Docs grammar check compares to its alternatives Your email has been sent Google Docs ...
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 ...
I’ve talked about the costs of poor grammar before. There are no good excuses. The world has two billion English writers, according to Brad Hoover, CEO of Top Ten Reviews #1 ranked grammar software ...
While it may take some time and fine-tuning to get used to the new grammar checker, Microsoft is on the path to making the feature useful for any style of writing. In one of my more recent posts, I ...
Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. One of the most important aspects of writing great copy is making sure it’s grammatically correct. That doesn’t mean, however, you need ...
At some point in social media history, Twitter's grammar police officially crossed into grammar Nazi territory. I'm not sure when it became socially acceptable to tell strangers that they used the ...