Ailing literacy skills across Australia has triggered a major overhaul of one state's education system with grammar and punctuation the areas most in need of improvement. The English syllabus has been ...

An overhaul to the way high school students are taught grammar, punctuation and sentence structure will be introduced after a decade-long decline in writing standards has left teenagers without vital ...

An independent clause close independent clauseAn independent clause is a group of words that work by themselves as a sentence. is a group of words that work by themselves as a sentence. A simple ...

Punctuation standards at schools are so poor that pupils taking GCSE English are completing entire exams without using a single comma. Even high-achieving pupils still do not understand basics such as ...