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Grammar's role in writing

8 March 2022

Research led by Professor Dominic Wyse finds that although primary school teaching of grammar may help with generating sentences, it does not appear to contribute to children's narrative writing.

Primary child in class. Image: Phil Meech for UCL Institute of Education

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