Modern grammar school set a test known as the 11-plus, which aims to see if prospective pupils would be suited to the school. The test is usually taken in the last year of primary school.

What is a grammar school? When were grammar schools first introduced? When were they scrapped? We answer the key questions on grammar schools.

Grammar is the system for organising a language. Learn more about grammar in this KS3 English guide for students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

GRAMMAR is a strange and wonderful thing. It is also fuzzy. At least the word "grammar" is. So fuzzy, in fact, that linguists rarely invoke it, other than in the broad meaning of "language". They ...

Technology is constantly blamed as the cause for grammar skill issues in younger generations. Is this actually the case?

Grammar is going all to hell, even in the office. That’s what the Wall Street Journal wrote on Wednesday, citing an “epidemic of grammar gaffes in the workplace” that has spread with the ...

Grammar is the system for organising a language. Learn more about grammar in this KS3 English guide for students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

Grammar schools are one of those subjects - they’re either loved or hated. The introduction of the grammar school has split British opinion since their introduction in the 16th century. Some see them ...

Grammar schools are typically a private type of school, meaning, they are not run or managed by the government. Normal state schools are run and governed by the local or national government.

After news that poorer children are still being left out of admissions, we look at what defines a grammar school.