English grammar may look easy at first. But we all make silly errors without even realising it. Most of you write or speak English with confidence. But later you realise a small mistake has flipped ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

WASHINGTON — A self-proclaimed word nerd is on a mission to answer your questions about language and grammar. Author and expert Ellen Jovin took her grammar table to the National Mall to answer ...

One "rule" that many self-appointed experts on writing return to again and again is: "Don't use the passive!" Or, as some puckishly put it, "The passive voice should be avoided." The passive voice is ...

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When The Independent published Helen Coffey’s passionate eulogy for the semicolon – that misunderstood and underappreciated jewel of English punctuation – the reaction from our readers was ...