BBC News answers some of the key questions about grammar schools and poses some 11-plus questions for readers to tackle. Grammar schools are state secondary schools that select their pupils by means ...

Professor of Education, Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University Theresa May’s plans to bring back grammar schools has provoked a storm of controversy – with the downside of ...

WHO can say what order should be used to list adjectives in English? Mark Forsyth, in “The Elements of Eloquence”, describes it as: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose and ...

The 2015 Word of the Year, according to members of the American Dialect Society, is “they.” Don’t panic. “Good” grammar evolves to reflect (and shape) a changing culture. The lions of linguistics, the ...

Michelle Sheehan has in the past received funding from the British Academy and Language Acts and Worldmaking (OWRI). People get corrected on their language all the time. With written language, this is ...

Editors serve a noble purpose in our organizations and our society, and they’re usually the first to remind you of that. But sometimes the editors get a little too full of themselves, and they’ll try ...

MODERN grammar schools have split opinion ever since their introduction. Having existed since the 16th century, the schools only really began to make people question the system when the first modern ...

What is a grammar school? When were grammar schools first introduced? When were they scrapped? We answer the key questions on grammar schools. As debate rages about Theresa May's plans for a new batch ...

The news that grammar schools are to be handed £50 million to help create more school places has been met with a mixed reaction. Here, we look at the background to grammar schools, and why they have ...