Do you struggle to correctly use pronouns? If so, you may understandably be wary of the ACT English section. This portion of the ACT contains 75 questions, which you must answer in 45 minutes. More ...

Have you made the mistake of mismatching pronouns? Almost everyone has. That includes the venerable and usually perfectly grammatical New York Times, most of your favorite writers–and me. I have a ...

Collective nouns such as "them" take the singular if they are acting as a unit and the plural if they are acting as individuals. Ex: The team (as individuals) decide today if they want to strike. The ...

Dogmatic opponents of using they with singular antecedents don’t argue for its wrongness; they simply assert. Rebecca Gowers, in her revised update of her great-grandfather’s classic usage book Plain ...

Pronouns are linguistic pointers. They can point to someone or something that exists in the actual environment: Or they can point to something in the "conversational environment," roughly, the set of ...

Two weeks ago, we started the series on word classes. And last week, we delved into report writing. I thought it would be useful to intersperse the series, so we go back to word classes this week. We ...