Have you made the mistake of mismatching pronouns? Almost everyone has. That includes the venerable and usually perfectly grammatical New York Times, most of your favorite writers–and me. I have a ...

Our pronouns are sometimes vague, lonely and dangling because we fail to hinge them on a specific unmistakable antecedent. E.g. ‘Shade tells her sister that she is better at mathematics.’ Who does the ...

Collective nouns such as "them" take the singular if they are acting as a unit and the plural if they are acting as individuals. Ex: The team (as individuals) decide today if they want to strike. The ...

Two weeks ago, we started the series on word classes. And last week, we delved into report writing. I thought it would be useful to intersperse the series, so we go back to word classes this week. We ...