OAKLAND — They were all a lot smaller when they saw each other last. But then, height happens when you’re half a century out of grammar school. “My, how you’ve grown,” a joking Tom Souza told fellow ...

Regarding the editorial “Rethink college remedial classes”: As an English instructor who has taught both remedial and introductory writing at the University of Washington, I can testify from my ...

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or concepts, ...

I am late with my contribution to the revitalised grammar school debate, but I’ll continue as I have a relatively unusual perspective for a broadsheet columnist – in the 70s I went to a working-class ...

Concrete nouns signify things, either in the real or imagined world. It’s usually possible to detect a concrete noun with one of the five senses. Abstract nouns refer to concepts and so cannot be ...

Class 9 English Grammar MCQs with Answers: English Grammar is an important scoring section of the CBSE Class 9 English exam, carrying 10 marks in both half-yearly and annual exams (2025-26).

David Jesson has received funding from The Specialist Schools & Academies Trust; Audit Commision, The Educational Endowment Foundation and also from various charitable organisations such as The Church ...