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 ...
A new study has shown, for the first time, what many of us have long felt: that observing grammar mistakes can trigger negative physical reactions, including one that stems from the part of our ...
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 ...
If you have teens, you’ve probably grown accustomed to seeing them lighted by the glow of a phone screen. Well, there’s some good and bad news coming from the hours they spend speed-tapping notes to ...
"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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Grammar schools continued to admit many pupils from affluent backgrounds despite the cancellation of transfer tests in 2021. That is one of the key findings from a new study by the Centre for Research ...