Time to get real about grammatical terminology | Letters

‘Heaven preserve us from adverbials and those who want to introduce them into the curriculum,’ writes Ruth Baden.How sad to see the waste of time that is grammatical terminology making a comeback (Experts on the frontline in fight over ‘fronted adverbials’, 9 May).More talk in the classroom and more encouragement to use language clearly and accurately is what is needed not the parlour game of name this grammatical construction.