From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

English grammar may look easy at first. But we all make silly errors without even realising it. Most of you write or speak English with confidence. But later you realise a small mistake has flipped ...

Next month, 600,000 11 year-olds will sit spelling, punctuation and grammar tests as part of the Education Secretary Michael Gove’s initiative to improve literacy in schools. For Nevile Gwynne, a self ...

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When The Independent published Helen Coffey’s passionate eulogy for the semicolon – that misunderstood and underappreciated jewel of English punctuation – the reaction from our readers was ...