Let’s Go Back to the Past – and Return to the Future with Good Grammar

Before spell-checkers, autocorrect, and predictive text, many schools were called grammar schools for a reason. Students were expected to understand how sentences worked. They learned subjects and verbs, clauses and...

Grammar Literacy: Looking Back, Looking Forward

More than a century ago, grammar was a central part of the American school curriculum. Students learned the parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, and the rules of standard written...

Pronoun Understood: The Invisible Subject That’s Actually There

Quick question: What’s the subject of the sentence “Come here immediately”? If you said “there is no subject,” you’re close—but not quite right. The subject is actually you—it’s just invisible....