Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Some people might view grammar as a set of confusing and complicated rules that must be followed.

When professor Sandeep Krishnamurthy collected the term papers from one of his classes at the University of Washington, he was shocked by the egregious errors in one of his students’ papers — so bad ...

In a world where we talk about keyboard shortcuts, we are shortcutting the English language. Verbs like “are” have become “r,” the dignified pronoun “you” has become “u,” and messaging has replaced ...

FIRST-year university students are having to take ''remedial'' courses in the basics of modern languages because of their lack of knowledge of English grammar and sharply falling standards in schools.

A Kolkata-born professor has created headlines in the UK stating that students do not need to waste time on spelling and grammar. Sugata Mitra is a professor of educational technology at Newcastle ...

That or which? Lie or lay? And where does that pesky comma go? The woman — or girl — who’s built a personal empire around guiding students and professionals through the thickets of grammar and usage ...

Well, this is an opinion you don’t often hear in the education world, The Huffington Post reports. Acclaimed professor and educational researcher Sugata Mitra suggested in an interview with British ...

FIRST-year university students are having to take ''remedial'' courses in the basics of modern languages because of their lack of knowledge of English grammar and sharply falling standards in schools.