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Anya Hindmarch and the art of the apostrophe

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Tuesday 15th November 2011

During my short-lived teaching career I was taken aback by my students’ poor grasp of basic grammar. Many of them avoided capital letters like the plague, used commas instead of full-stops and as for semi-colons, well, forget it. So maybe St Paul’s School for Girls, one of the most successful schools in the country, is on to something with its decision to run traditional grammar lessons for pupils aged 11 ...keep reading