Syntax vs. Grammar: What’s the Difference?
Reading Time: 3 minutes And suddenly semantics enters our conversation about grammar and syntax.
For Teachers
4 Ways to Make Students Like Grammar
Reading Time: 5 minutes To get students to like grammar focus on students doing grammar over learning through definitions and rules.
Book Banning: 5 Things You Can Do
Reading Time: 4 minutes Book bans in schools are on the rise. So what is a teacher to do? If a parent challenges a book, here are five suggestions.
How to Find the Verb Using the Tense Trick
Reading Time: 3 minutes To find a verb in a sentence, the trick is to change the time (tense) of the sentence.
Can I Put a Comma Where I Pause?
Reading Time: 3 minutes When students ask too many questions about commas, teachers often revert to a classic piece of advice during comma instruction: put a comma where you pause. This advice leads to confusion when a writer eventually learns that isn’t a rule. So why do teachers tell students to put a comma at a pause? Teachers do … Read more
6 Calculators for Grammar and Writing
Reading Time: 4 minutes We associate calculators with math, but these 6 calculators can be used for grammar and writing.
