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Depending on where you fall on the “correcting other people’s grammar” scale (unless its part of your job), this news will either hit you with euphoria or like a ton of sad bricks that don’t know how ...

A study published in March suggests what we've all long suspected: People who are obsessed with grammar aren't as nice as the rest of us. For the study, scientists Julie Boland and Robin Queen from ...

A new study has shown, for the first time, what many of us have long felt: that observing grammar mistakes can trigger negative physical reactions, including one that stems from the part of our ...

Call them grammar snobs or grammar nerds but we all have that one friend whose biggest turn off is wrongly spelt words or poorly constructed sentences. In short, they are sure to judge people who ...

"I can't hear you when you don't use good grammar," my friend Steve's wife, Carol, says to him regularly. Yes, she's one of those people who absolutely can't resist showing off their impressive ...

Donald Trump might have trouble if he ever appears on "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" An analysis of the speeches of Republican presidential candidates by researchers at Carnegie Mellon ...

A new study has shown that children as young as two understand basic grammar rules when they first learn to speak and are not simply imitating adults. The study also applied the same statistical ...

Grammar schools perform no better than non-selective state schools, once their pupils' higher ability and wealth is taken into account, a study suggests. Academics at Durham University found the ...