The Grammar Guru series kicked the year off with a list of words and phrases to banish from the English language. After that ...

Wordy: The conjugation of verbs can be fraught with difficulties. Concise: Conjugating verbs can be difficult. Infinitive phrases are phrases that contain verb infinitives (to + verb). While these are ...

They may sound innocuous to you, but please don’t throw around these seemingly innocent words and phrases that have horrible ...

You can join sentences, clauses and phrases together using connectives, or joining words. Some common connectives include ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’ and ‘then’. Using these can make your ...

Prepositions are short words and phrases that give information about place, time and manner, eg: 'on', 'under', 'near', 'below', 'by', 'at', 'in'. You can join ...

The reasons for this have nothing to do with grammar. These are phrases that people have come to learn and commonly accept as meaningful, by speaking and interacting with one another over time.

Our test involves judging the meaningfulness of two-word noun-noun phrases. For most people who speak fluent English, noun-noun word pairs like “beach ball” and “apple cake” are meaningful, but “ball ...