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 ...

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about English grammar and usage — most of which I promptly forgot. And not for lack of use. Every day I apply what I’ve learned to catch and fix writers’ mistakes.

Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter, or Telegram and WhatsApp channels for the latest stories and updates. English can be pretty confusing sometimes, or most times. While it seems like such a simple ...

Is ‘majority’ singular or plural? The word “majority” can be either singular or plural, depending on whether we are talking about a group or collection of individuals or the individuals in a group. If ...

If there’s more than one of something then you need to make the noun plural. Nouns in Spanish can be singular or plural. There are different ways of making a noun plural in Spanish, depending the noun ...

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; ...