The secret passwords aren’t the usual class giveaways like dinner or serviette – being secret, they haven’t been identified until here. These secret passwords are hidden in the grammar, and they are words we use all the time – the most common verbs, some pronouns, negatives, adverbs – which happen to differ in the middle-class and working-class versions. If you don’t use the middle-class words, you don’t get into the middle-class.

What is a verb? How do our prepositions work? What are gerunds and can they be treated? A brief guide to the basics of real English grammar.

The most important rules of the grammar you don’t know that you know inside out. The section which proves that you are a linguistic genius and which shows how English grammar is segregated by class.

Do you really have to not split infinitives? Or not use prepositions to end sentences with? Do your modifiers dangle? An enlightened guide on how to handle the invented rules of our know-nothing grammar police.

Is it it’s or its? Alright or all right? Imply or infer? Principal or principle? There or their? Or they’re? An expert guide to often-confused or problematic words.

The crazed spelling of English and the most important differences between American and British systems.

Colons! Semi-colons! Exclamation marks! Short, clear and sensible explanations of English’s punctuation rules. Say goodbye to apostrophe catastrophe. You need never fear the Oxford comma again.

Writing is difficult and dangerous so here’s help from a seasoned pro on what to do and what to avoid when your fingers are on the keyboard. For reports, essays, emails, any sort of writing for work. (Completely useless for fiction and poetry).