“Every one of us have a role to play” or “Every one of us has a role to play”? “A bunch of students were waiting outside” or “a bunch of students was waiting outside”? “It is I who am here” or “It is ...

Subject-verb agreement means that your verb must be conjugated, or changed, to fit (or agree) with the subject. Subjects can be singular or plural. Think of singular and plural as mathematical ...

It’s the day after, and half of us are elated and half of us are despondent and a bipartisan group of us is wondering if this sentence is a big, fat grammatical mess. That group, which counts yours ...

One of the earliest and most useful grammar rules in English is that a verb should always agree with its subject in both person and number. Stated more simply, singular subjects should take verbs in ...

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about English grammar and usage — most of which I promptly forgot. And not for lack of use. Every day I apply what I’ve learned to catch and fix writers’ mistakes.

Some keen-eared Radio National listeners recently took issue with the following sentence, delivered on a book review program: "There's heartbreaking scenes in Murakami's new novel." It's not that the ...