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.

There’s a difference between me and I. In casual conversation, most people I know don’t worry too much about sounding proper. They don’t bother with “whom.” They say, “There’s a lot of people here” ...

A sentence in the active voice typically has the formation of Subject Verb Object SVO. The verb needs to be in agreement with the subject for proper grammar formation. We have certain rules to ...

The rules of grammar you follow while speaking may not reflect what you're thinking. In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that speakers ...

English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) word order in simple sentences, as in Students (S) read (V) books (O). This SVO word order becomes altered in many other English sentence ...