Grammar for Grown-ups by Barrie England is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
For many, learning grammar means learning how to speak and write in polite society. That may have some value, but it is not the sense in which linguists think of grammar, and it is not the sense in which this blog considers it. Grammar is the set of rules that tell us how to make words and sentences. We learn them by the time we’re of school age. We don’t learn grammar at school. We learn, or we should learn, about grammar at school. You may even learn a bit about it here. If you feel you need to learn something about the basics of English grammar, you may like to listen to the audio posts on my other blog, Real Grammar.
If you’d like to learn something about the specialized language of diplomacy, you can do so on my site Envoys’ English.
The header picture is of the Malvern Hills. It was here that ‘on a May morynge’, Langland’s Piers Plowman ‘went wyde in this world wondres to here’.
My name is Barrie England. I am an Oxford graduate in English Language and Literature and am qualified as a teacher of English to foreign learners. My career, however, has been in government service. You can see my other stuff here:
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