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 ...
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 ...
A research group at the University of Helsinki has discovered the logic that controls gene regulation in human cells. In the future, this new knowledge can be applied to, for example, investigating ...
A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan found that individuals with these personality traits hold higher opinions of those with poor spelling and grammar. Of course, this confirms ...
Now experts have discovered it really does cause a physical reaction – and even affects our heart rate. Instances of bad grammar can include mixing up tenses within a sentence, confusing the singular ...
In his quest to understand how each cell of an organism interprets the same genome in a different way, researcher Sascha Duttke wondered whether there might be any undiscovered rules of biology. The ...
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 ...
Children are able to comprehend complex grammar at a younger age than previously believed, a new study shows. When learning a language, young children must understand the meaning of words as well as ...
I’ve talked about the costs of poor grammar before. There are no good excuses. The world has two billion English writers, according to Brad Hoover, CEO of Top Ten Reviews #1 ranked grammar software ...