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 ...

I got an email one morning last week from a complete stranger in South Korea. In the From-line the sender’s name was displayed in hangul (my favorite among the world’s writing systems; I may write ...

We're all taught the importance of correct grammar and spelling at school. But a new test by Playbuzz has left many adults stumped despite it being designed for children aged between 11 and 12. The ...

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 ...

They will also be expected to use commas and apostrophes correctly, avoiding the so-called ‘greengrocer’s apostrophe’ where apples and pears are wrongly written as apple’s and pear’s. The hour-long ...