Apostrophes are equal opportunity humiliators. As I wrote recently, apostrophes incriminate less-word-savvy types by popping up in plurals like “We play bridge with the Smith’s” and “He had two ...

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 ...

What do erotica, stamina, and candelabra have in common? Oh, stop it. The answer is that they are all singular nouns that started off plural. In Latin, nouns that end in –um when alone often end in –a ...

Of all the grammar concepts we have, "plural" seems to be one of the most straightforward. You got one thing? It's singular. Got more than one thing? It's plural. But alas, language is always less ...

You've heard about the three conversation topics to avoid in polite company – money, religion and politics. But what about these taboo subjects as they relate to grammar? I hope your grammar is rich, ...

There is a myriad of ways we can express quantities in English, but there are just a couple words that are much in dispute. Wait. Should that be "there are myriad ways" and "just a couple of words"?

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 ...