Verbs First: Targeting the Crucial Action
We can improve our writing by focusing on any unit of style—from choosing the just-right word to sculpting clauses, sustaining longer sentences with grace, and...
Making Verbs Agree with Neither, Either, and Each
Can you spot subject-verb problems in any of the following sentences? Each of the seventeen department heads are required to submit a year-end budget report....
Making Words Possessive or Plural When They End in “S” (and in Other Sibilants)
The issue of making nouns possessive can be tricky when those nouns end in sibilants (s, ch, sh, z, x). Can you spot an error...
I and Me
Which of these sentences correctly use the first-person pronouns I and me? Harry and I will take the annual report to the meeting. The winners...
Are the Pronouns They and Them Ever Singular?
The pronouns in the following sentences are problematic: Everyone came to our office party and brought their favorite dessert. Each employee has to sign their...
