When The Independent published Helen Coffey’s passionate eulogy for the semicolon – that misunderstood and underappreciated jewel of English punctuation – the reaction from our readers was ...

This spelling and grammar test from the 1980s is so difficult that it is claimed no one can get more than 50 per cent of the answers right. The 20-question quiz promises to leave even the brightest ...

They will also be expected to use commas and apostrophes correctly, avoiding the so-called ‘greengrocer’s apostrophe’ where apples and pears are wrongly written as apple’s and pear’s. The hour-long ...

Take a look at sample questions from the new "back-to-basics" grammar test to be sat by 11-year-old pupils from next summer in primary schools. By Andrew Marszal 17 December 2012 • 12:00am Grammar ...