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 ...

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some ...

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 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 ...