Getting to grips with French grammar is not easy - which is why we're starting our new series offering tips and tricks for French learners. This week we're looking at the notorious subjunctive and ...

For grammar bullies “the subjunctive” is sacred ground. Reforms proposed for the British national curriculum in 2012 required teaching use of the subjunctive not later than sixth grade. People seem to ...

How good is your English grammar? This week's question concerns one of the trickier aspects of the language. It's called the 'subjunctive mood' but we hope it doesn't ...

READING a story on the fate of European newspapers, your columnist was drowning in bad news—newsrooms decimated, advertisers fleeing—but then a strange sentence appeared: Even Rupert Murdoch, who ...

It is often bemoaned in Britain that English is going to pieces—and Americans are generally to blame. Whether you call it decline or not, the moaners are on to something: America has indeed produced ...