Coronation Street star Sally Dynevor in planning row with prestigious grammar school over sports hall that may ‘damage’ her £2million mansion Coronation Street’s Sally Dynevor embroiled in row with a grammar school Star opposed construction of sports hall at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls The grounds border Dynevor’s property in the village of Bowdon, Cheshire By Liz … Read more
Kent grammar school will SHUT for two days after Christmas and teach pupils remotely over fears Brexit will spark traffic chaos with lorry jams on the M20 Maidstone Grammar School, Kent will host live virtual lessons on January 4 and 5 The 16th century all boys secondary school is based a mile away from the … Read more
Dartford Grammar School for Girls bans pupils from wearing Black Lives Matter facemasks after they hold protest against decision not to stage assembly on the movement Students of Dartford Grammar School for Girls must wear plain face coverings The rule was introduced after some students wore ‘Black Lives Matter’ masks Parent Angela Wood, whose daughter … Read more
Waitrose shopper who gave shrimp paste two stars due to incorrect grammar on the label is mocked after making a blunder in his scathing review Shopper criticised Waitrose after shrimp paste description used incorrect grammar by describing stir fries as ‘stir fry’s’ on its online product description Another quickly pointed out that the complainant used incorrect … Read more
Teacher, 54, at £14,000-a-year grammar school convicted of assaulting pupil after kicking him in groin for chewing gum in class is allowed to stay in the profession, tribunal rules Mark Jarvis was a teacher at Wisbech Grammar School when he kicked a pupil Pupils said he was smiling and ‘not aggressive,’ when he launched kick … Read more
Tricky English quiz will put your spelling and grammar skills to the test – and its creator claims you need an IQ of 145 to score full marks Online quiz challenges your knowledge of the English language Your spelling, conjugation and grammar will all be put to the test in 15 questions It was shared … Read more
Grammar school is forced to delay reopening by more than a week after some pupils tested positive for coronavirus following holiday abroad Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, has delayed The school will go back on September 10 following talks with health officials Headteacher Kay Mountfield broke the news to parents last Friday in … Read more
Trying to analyze Donald Trump made a speech recognition bot literally CRASH – and the only way to make it work properly was to strip out its grammar and syntax tools Researchers assigned a speech recognition bot to analyze Donald Trump The bot struggled to make sense of his rambling and fragmentary sentences The team … Read more
How good is YOUR vocabulary? These 15 questions will put your knowledge of synonyms, antonyms and definitions to the test A trick new quiz by Playbuzz challenges nation to put their grammar to the test Fifteen questions test public to see if they can identify the correct vocabulary Creators have claimed most people struggle to … Read more
Babies as young as eight months understand the basics of grammar – before they can talk, scientists say Experts tested 175 eight-month-old babies from French-speaking households Infants listened to a tape of an artificial language while looking at related shapes The babies appeared to distinguish between content and function words Kids typically start stringing words … Read more