The ACT English Test and the SAT Writing and Language Test assess test-takers in various conventions of standard English, such as punctuation, sentence structure and formation, and usage. For many ...

People whinge about “the decline of grammar” when they are merely talking about minor solecisms of spelling and punctuation, or a change in some convention they learned in childhood. They could adopt ...

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article about the reportedly horrendous grammar that has become in the norm in the workplace. The response was huge: Hundreds of commenters logged on to say ...

The writing teams for common standards have sought the advice of researchers on English-language learners, but the organizations that are coordinating the venture don’t plan to produce a set of ...

Non-fiction texts are everywhere – from class textbooks to diary entries, from newspapers to social media posts, from instruction manuals to film reviews. It is useful to know how these texts are put ...