The couple is going to purchase the house? Or the couple are going to purchase the house? Even after all my years of editing, I can still get tripped up trying to make verbs agree with collective ...

A friend emailed recently to ask about the grammar on a T-shirt that read: “The only minority destroying the country are the billionaires.” His question: “Am I wrong or is the grammar on her T-shirt ...

Hello, I’m Miss Williams and today we’re going to be looking at how we turn a word into a plural. But what is a plural? A plural is when you take a singular word and you add one or more letters to ...

The set of words “there’s a number of reasons” yields almost 3 million hits on Google. But the phrase “there are a number of reasons” returns more than 63 million results. And perhaps the least ...

For the first time, The Associated Press now permits journalists to use “they” as a singular pronoun. The AP announced the style change Friday at the American Copy Editors Society conference in St.

Anne Curzan is the Geneva Smitherman collegiate professor of English and linguistics at the University of Michigan, where she is also dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Some of ...