Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or concepts, ...

When it comes to teaching languages, the grammar-translation method has become the child nobody loves or wants to acknowledge. But is it really hell on toast? No, it ain’t. There, I said it. Leave it ...

Mr RH Walker teaches geography to a class of schoolchildren at Wigan Grammar School in Lancashire Credit: Photo: Getty The launch of what may turn out to be a wave of new grammar schools is both less ...