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.

In English, there are certain nouns that have specific rules for forming their plural forms when they end in “-f”, “-fe”, or “-o”. These rules help maintain the correct pronunciation and spelling of ...

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, goes the Dr. Seuss children’s story. Why isn’t it two fishes? You may think, “Ok, it’s hard to count fish so we group them all together. No problem.” Let’s ...

'Singular Nouns to Plural Nouns - Year 1’ introduces pupils to singular and plural nouns as per the curriculum objectives of the Year 1 English programme of study - Writing - transcription. This ...

Chapter 1: "My grammar falls apart when I speak" That feeling is actually a common pattern, even according to data.When you ...

Sometimes a noun looks like it should be plural when it isn’t. Chances are that this noun is called a mass noun. Mass nouns are nouns that, by their very nature, are plural. These are also called ...