Churchill’s scribbled response: “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.” It’s a great story, but it’s a myth. And so is that so-called grammar rule about ending ...

Most average adult English speakers know between 20,000 ... we hear the patterns and structures of the words and start to use this grammar ourselves. Grammar 'rules' can change over time ...

Maria Goranova from the Czech Republic asks: What is the use of the present subjunctive in modern English? Why is it possible to, and when is it possible, to ignore the subjunctive and use present ...