In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

A verb describes an action, state or occurrence. This is Ahmed. Ahmed isn’t doing anything. Ahmed is not a verb. Ahmed is a noun. In fact, Ahmed is a proper noun. But if Ahmed does something then we ...

Philips are in the house. Kunle and Kelvin has not eaten. The make-up artiste as well as her friend are cool and calm. Neither Kunle nor the twins is in the class. I pray he comes early. One of the ...

A few weeks ago I mentioned here a CNN article "about the president making an unannounced stop." Two readers emailed with the same question. Here's Bill in Niskayuna: "I was taught that a noun or ...

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I do not consider myself a “grammar maven” — or even, as Dave Barry puts it, a Mister Language Person — but when I receive questions about grammar at onlanguage@gmail.com, I do my best to give an ...