Are you one of those for who the bell tolls for?

Katherine Fry and Rowena Kirton’s Grammar for Grown-Ups is the perfect book for anyone who wants to write well

A lot has been said these past few weeks about grammar, and to what level children should be taught it. I’m not about to wade in. But as someone who makes her living from words, all I can tell you is that even now I still desperately wish my own was better. Unfortunately, my secondary school preferred to take us on day trips to sexual health clinics than to teach us grammar, so while I struggle not at all with the spelling of gonorrhoea, correlative conjunctions and the rest remain a mystery to me.

Fry and Kirton always have the answer, and yet they never make me feel like a fool for not having known it myself

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