Answer these quiz questions and find out whether your English language skills are adequate or not! Do you 'throw the garbage' or 'throw out the garbage'? Did the cat 'jump the roof' or 'jump off the ...

Do you fancy yourself as a bit of a walking dictionary? Do you know your pronouns from your passives, your commas from your clauses? We’ve put together a quiz to challenge you on all things grammar ...

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Do you go bananas when someone puts an apostrophe in the wrong place? Or are you a bit unsure about when to use 'it's' and 'its'? What about 'me' and 'I'? This quiz will test your true grasp of ...

"Who I see" should be “whom I see”. This is because “whom” is the object in the subsidiary clause “whom I see”, and must therefore be in the accusative or objective case. 4. “Near” is an adverb ...

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For grammar sticklers, the increased use of the split infinitive in recent decades will have been painful to observe. Sentences where an adverb is put between 'to' and the verb have become much more ...

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 ...