To write a formal letter to the Queen, the convention is to open with ‘Madam’ and close the letter with ‘I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient servant’. Formal writing ...

ON JULY 20th, Kyle Wiens, who runs two technology companies, wrote a blog post for Harvard Business Review titled "I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why." The nub: If you think an ...

I always tell my students that I'm not their language nanny. I'm an educator, and I deal with content. Ironically, however, I blue-pencil as many errors–mostly grammatical–as I can while checking ...

Senior lecturer in Spanish and Open Media Fellow, The Open University Language learning apps are very popular in app stores worldwide – and are said to be revolutionising language learning. These apps ...