Although English-language verbs generally don’t inflect or change in form to agree with the subject in number, they do so in the present tense, third-person singular. In English grammar, in this ...

“Every one of us have a role to play” or “Every one of us has a role to play”? “A bunch of students were waiting outside” or “a bunch of students was waiting outside”? “It is I who am here” or “It is ...

Pop quiz. Which is correct? “The dogs are outside” or “The dogs is outside.” I don’t even have to hear your answer to give you an A. Anyone reading an English-language newspaper surely knows that ...

The verb in a sentence is the word that shows action or being. The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that's doing the action, or being something. Hello. I'm Mrs Shaukat and we're going to ...

It isn’t easy to admit being wrong in front of thousands of readers, but Ben Yagoda took it on the chin It isn’t easy to admit being wrong in front of thousands of readers, but Ben Yagoda took it on ...

If you are in Bucharest and impatiently waiting for, say, your children to head off to school in the morning, you might hear yourself saying something like, “Haideţi caţi întârziat, ce mai!” Or: ...

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Please, please, The Maui News, rehire copy editors; children may be reading. Twice in a span of four days, this paper printed god-awful headlines, so bad they caused great pain to my sensibility. The ...