See anything wrong with that sentence? Most people probably don’t, but there is a problem with it and, for me, the problem is eye-opening. Here’s the issue: If you want to be as proper and correct as ...

When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” “Her suitor found a ...

A recent headline from the Los Angeles Times, "Teens Plotting Attacks Tend to Tip Their Hand," highlights a particularly difficult grammar problem. Do plural teens really share a singular hand? No.

The conventional grammar wisdom is that turning verbs into nouns — or what is termed “nominalization” in linguistics — is bad for the health of one's prose. The evidence is painfully clear. Take this ...

The subject in Photoshop is usually what the picture is about. For example, you may take the picture of someone at the beach. The person in the picture is the subject and everything else would be the ...

William Heard Kilpatrick, one of the most influential pedagogical figures of the early twentieth century, would have felt right at home in today’s educational culture wars. Back then, as now, the ...