Our grammar column

At first, our articles about grammar were called 'Grammar grabs' (a name we didn't like much), and were on p. 30 of the TES supplement called 'Teacher'. But on 1 November 2002 they were moved to p. 5 (promotion!) and renamed 'The Writer's Toolkit'. Our last column was published on the 18th March 2005, when the series was discontinued.

Spring 2005

• 07 Jan Its
• 14 Jan Subordinate clauses
• 21 Jan Separate
• 28 Jan Expanded nouns
• 04 Feb Because
• 11 Feb Adverbs
• 18 Feb Yes
• 25 Feb Over-expanded nouns
• 04 March Prepositions
• 11 March Maybe
• 18 March Full stop

Autumn 2004

• 03 Sept Rules
• 10 Sept Us (inviting queries from readers)
• 17 Sept Hither
• 24 Sept The
• 01 Oct ZPD
• 08 Oct Relative clause
• 15 Oct Buying
• 22 Oct Colon
• 29 Oct I were
• 05 Nov Definitions
• 12 Nov Learnt
• 19 Nov Such
• 26 Nov Y
• 03 Dec Cleft

Summer 2004

• 23 April Models
• 30 April Spelling rules
• 07 May Clause commas
• 14 May Adverbial commas
• 21 May Fat
• 28 May Natural
• 04 June Co-ordination
• 11 June E.g.
• 18 June Effects
• 25 June Questions
• 02 July Chunks

Spring 2004

• 09 Jan Capitals
• 16 Jan Passives
• 23 Jan Size
• 30 Jan An
• 06 Feb Comma splices
• 13 Feb Sentence-combining
• 20 Feb Standard English
• 27 Feb Knowledge
• 05 March Growing grammars
• 12 March Backshift
• 19 March Crescendo
• 26 March Denial

Autumn term 2003

• 05 Sept Agreement
• 12 Sept Participles
• 19 Sept Delayed subjects
• 26 Sept Reference chains
• 03 Oct Phrasal verbs
• 10 Oct May
• 17 Oct Fun
• 24 Oct Latin
• 31 Oct Networks
• 07 Nov Imaginary journeys
• 14 Nov Jumbled letters
• 21 Nov Bearded
• 28 Nov Naughty words
• 05 Dec Adjectives

Summer term 2003

• 02 May Front-shifting
• 09 May Bullets
• 16 May Literary present
• 23 May Hyphens
• 30 May Spaces
• 06 June Correlation
• 13 June Shall
• 20 June Which
• 27 June Creativity
• 04 July Commas

Spring term 2003

• 10 January Spelling
• 17 January The longest word
• 24 January Facts
• 31 January Squirarchy (about clause structure)
• 07 February Full stops
• 14 February Definitions
• 21 February Sickness (about idiosyncratic lexical grammar)
• 28 February Latin
• 07 March Charles's
• 14 March Apposition
• 21 March Complexity
• 28 March Only
• 04 April Diagrams

Autum term 2002

• 06 September Being casual (about auxiliary verbs)
• 13 September Punctuation
• 20 September Split infinitives
• 27 September Word classes
• 04 October Vocabulary growth
• 11 October Cookery (about countability)
• 18 October Tense
• 25 October But
• 01 November Terminology
• 08 November Tag questions
• 15 November Causation
• 22 November Modal verbs
• 29 November Synonyms
• 06 December Selection

Summer term 2002

• 26 April 2002 Coordination and ellipsis
• 03 May 2002 Plurals
• 10 May 2002 Standard English
• 17 May 2002 Modifiers
• 24 May 2002 Painfulness
• 31 May 2002 Apostrophe's
• 07 June 2002 Causatives
• 14 June 2002 World words
• 21 June 2002 Nominalisations
• 28 June 2002 Passives
• 05 July 2002 That

Other articles

1 Feb 2002 (Curriculum Special, pp 6-7) Grammar teaching: grind or glamour?

Further resources

• Hello! and Goodbye! in languages of the world
• An undergraduate study of KS2 punctuation

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