According to the Internet, there’s a car dealer whose service department has a “kid’s play area,” but a competitor offers a “childrens play area.” The former makes you wonder: Who is ...

Sarah, who goes by the username Grammar Slammer online and advises trainee primary teachers on the English National ... Add a prefix to the underlined word to make its antonym.

What happened next will sound familiar to every careful user of the English ... Grammar expert June Casagrande writes she has come to hate a usually unnecessary common pattern of words.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. ‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 ...

These types of words are called “compound words” — they are often written as two words (“apple tree”), but sometimes one (“shoelace”). English has never sorted out the rules here.

to massage their words to English perfection (or what my grandmother would have considered merely acceptable). I chime in “Ethan and I, not Ethan and me,” and in the next breath ...