For grammar sticklers, the increased use of the split infinitive in recent decades will have been painful to observe. Sentences where an adverb is put between 'to' and the verb have become much more ...

We'd all like to think we know our English grammar, but this Cambridge University exam from 1913 shows how rules were a little different back then. Back then, the practice of putting an adverb between ...

Part of an English test first sat in 1913 has been released by Cambridge University to mark 110 years since its first Cambridge English exams. Only three students took the Certificate of Proficiency ...

Eli Soler recently added an element to his classes for would-be commercial truck drivers: a mock roadside English-proficiency test. “How many hours have you driven? Where is this load going to?” Soler ...