English Ideas

English Ideas is all about language, grammar and teaching.

It is about taking English language teaching on into the 21st Century.

It is about you, as teachers, becoming involved in creating the grammar which you will be teaching.

Pedagogical Grammars

Current pedagogical grammars have a number of well-known weaknesses, like their treatment of some and any, of used to and of the difference between few and a few.

Other problems are more serious yet less widely recognised.

The English Ideas Project

This site is dedicated to creating a better pedagogical grammar of the English language.

One that will meet learners' needs more effectively. One that is based in a better understanding of the reality of the language. One that better enables the learners to explore the vastness that is the English language.

Getting Involved

You too can become involved in the English Ideas Project. We are looking for bi-lingual and poly-lingual English language teachers [BELTS and PELTS] to become contributing experts to English Ideas and to use your expertise to create the grammar which you will use in your classrooms with your learners.

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This web site and the resources in it are part of a multi-year investigative project into the English language and its grammar and is continually being developed and added to.