A weekly grammar column in the Times Educational Supplement
by Geoff Barton and Dick Hudson
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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.
The complete collection can be downloaded as a zip file (which lists the columns by date.) The following is a list of the individual items by date.
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
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1 Feb 2002 (Curriculum Special, pp 6-7) Grammar teaching: grind or glamour?
