Lesson 1: Don’t Capitalize Terms That Have Entered Common Usage Brand new words are usually capitalized when they’re introduced into a language. For instance, take the word scuba.

The Grammar Girl web site features audio and text lessons, daily mini-lessons, writing tips that cover everything from proper use of punctuation to strengthening your résumé and proposal writing ...

Dave Robles, an elementary school teacher from New York City, uses rap beats to help his students learn grammar lessons. NOEL KING, HOST: Keeping kids' attention is a huge challenge for any teacher.

Putting Grammar Lessons on the Line Students' Writing Problems Prompt Some Teachers to Dust Off Sentence-Diagramming Method February 2, 2002 By Jay Mathews ...

In 2014, a leaked copy of the Directorate of Intelligence Style Manual & Writer's Guide for Intelligence Publication, a.k.a. Strunk & White for spies, found its way to the Internet.

A misspelled word, bad grammar or pitiful punctuation can ruin that first impression quickly. Here are five grammar and spelling content marketing lessons. 1. Beware the homonyms.

The glamour of grammar: an object lesson Self-taught teacher Nevile Gwynne's grammar primer has garnered a cult following, and is about to go mainstream with a new, expanded version.

The grammar books of the late 1800s tried mightily to shore up the had (some even making up a rule from nowhere that it should be would, as in “he would better”), but these days the bare form ...

Knowledge of grammar, of course, does not necessarily mean a student has the ability to formulate an idea. Nor does it mean they can test that idea, or convincingly deliver it to various audiences.