Being asked for advice about whether a grammar test has been wrongly graded is one thing, Geoff Pullum decided, but demanding the answer as quickly as possible is quite another.

A back-to-basics test of grammar and punctuation for all 11-year-olds has been unveiled by Michael Gove in a drive to raise standards in primary schools. Up to 600,000 pupils a year, starting from ...

Plans to focus on grammar and spelling in primary-school English teaching will impoverish the subject, experts say.

He gives all of his job applicants a grammar test, making exceptions only for people with serious extenuating circumstances like dyslexia or those who are learning English as a second language.

Some grammar defenders can be "extremely prissy", admits Harry Mount, author of How England Made the English. But good grammar matters and the new test is to be welcomed, he argues.

Will they introduce courses that teach basic literacy, spelling, grammar and punctuation? Will they offer test preparation classes?