How Good Is Your Grammar?

The ultimate test of grammar rules - the grammar book serialised in the Times feature 'Grammar for Grown-ups'.

“One of the best gift books for Christmas”

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John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus, UCL, is the author of over 30 works of scholarship and writes, regularly, for the London and New York Times, the London Guardian and many places else (spot the solecism).

Why do purists insist that 'television' is wrong while 'telephone' is correct? Was Bill Clinton taking risks with language as well as his presidency when he declared, 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman?' And can the use of 'ain't' ever be defended, especially when there's no sunshine when she's gone? This is neither a rule book nor a primer but a rollercoaster ride through the mysteries and magic of the world's greatest language.

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