Grammar Gang

http://bngeek18.deviantart.com/art/My-puzzled-face-168534301   If you were asked, how would you define a sentence? Ask your friends. As...

Op-Eds Italy, 2008 Hyphens, em dashes and en dashes.  They all look the same so where, dear reader, should we use them?  In fa...

These are a few of our favourite things Dear Gramm-o-philes (or Grammarphiles, or Grammarians if you prefer) 'Sound of Music...

   As Shakespeare's witches said in 'Macbeth': 'Double, double, toil and trouble.' But wait a moment. Should that ...

Call for papers – Journal of Learning Design September 2012 ‘The Classroom without walls:  Social software, cross institutional co...

English is easier than some languages, but harder than others, in respect to tenses. In English, we don't make too many ...

The sad truth about English teachers I knew my grammar and punctuation fetish was getting out of hand when, on a recent trip to the beach, I...

Recently, I was reading one of my students' journal entries in which she discussed how she struggled with some aspects of academic style...

Recently, on a drive from Palmerston North to Auckland, I spent some time musing on which grammar issues bother me and which ones don't....

Semi-colons get a bad press. They have been described as the most feared form of punctuation (right up there ahead of apostrophes). Here at ...