I grew up in a family of people who had a lot to feel bad about. As the middle child, it was my job to make them feel better. “Don’t feel guilty about feeding us Twinkies for breakfast every day. When ...

A friend emailed recently to ask about the grammar on a T-shirt that read: “The only minority destroying the country are the billionaires.” His question: “Am I wrong or is the grammar on her T-shirt ...

Some sneaky words out there look like plurals but take a singular verb. "Whereabouts" is one of those words, and here's an example from Monday's front page: Gadhafi’s defenders quickly melted away as ...

Is the verb after the phrase ‘number of’ singular or plural? A simple rule is that if ‘the’ precedes the phrase ‘number of’, then the verb after the phrase is singular. For example, n The number of ...

Hello, I’m Miss Williams and today we’re going to be looking at how we turn a word into a plural. But what is a plural? A plural is when you take a singular word and you add one or more letters to ...

Apostrophes are strange little creatures that can cause two words to merge. Uh huh! The apostrophe takes the place of the removed letters. This is how it contracts the two words together. It can't be ...

Sorry, grammarian traditionalists: The singular “they” is not only acceptable but has been chosen Word of the Year for 2015. Its usage has been a source of ...

US linguists on Friday chose “they” as their Word of the Decade, recognising the growing use of third-person plural pronouns as a singular form to refer to people who identify their gender as neither ...