Sentence examples for Grammar academic from inspiring English sources

All children would take an examination the "11-plus"—which would determine whether their secondary education would be in a grammar (academic), technical or "modern" school.

The grammar of academic English is part of English grammar as a whole.

The broadcaster James Naughtie said recently on the BBC's Today programme, during a discussion about grammar, that academic prose frequently contained "pieces of English which are frightful.

Chomskyites rushed to defend universal grammar and academics cast doubt on Everett's view of the Pirahã.

"Whether you bring back the schools called grammar schools, with academic selection or brutal academic selection at 11, maybe you don't.

If you didn't get into the grammar school, your academic career would almost certainly fade fast.

To put it bluntly, your family income would need to be around £90,000 a year for your child to have a half a chance at getting into an academic grammar school.

Their aim, in part, is to fill the void left by Old Labour's abolition in years gone by of the highly academic grammar and state-subsidised direct grant schools.The Church Schools Company, a charity that runs eight well-regarded independent schools, sponsors two such academies and plans eight more.

Young's book was an opening shot in a successful war against the 11-plus, a British school examination that divided children between a gifted elite destined for academic grammar schools and those consigned to run-of-the-mill secondary modern schools.

She must also settle the upheaval caused by Mr McGuinness's pledge, when he was education minister in an earlier attempt at power-sharing, to do away with selective "11-plus" exams that shunt some children towards highly academic grammar schools and others into less-demanding secondary schools.

Some programs claim to offer a magic shortcut that lets you learn a language without all that icky, academic grammar stuff.