There is a question many people recently got wrong in our homework series. It centres on the choices that ‘neither’ makes when used with ‘nor’ to connect two or more negative alternatives. The outcome ...

Subject-verb agreement means that your verb must be conjugated, or changed, to fit (or agree) with the subject. Subjects can be singular or plural. Think of singular and plural as mathematical ...

What is happening to the English language? I learned the difference between singular and plural nouns while in elementary school. That was reinforced during middle school, high school and college. It ...

There is a question many people recently got wrong in our homework series. It centres on the choices that ‘neither’ makes when used with ‘nor’ to connect two or more negative alternatives. The outcome ...

As terse as they normally are, newspaper headlines are designed to get your attention by, as much as possible, summarizing the main body text. Two words in last week’s headline of this column; ...