It’s a billboard custom-tailored to grammar buffs. “Every day we help people get back to their everyday,” proclaims the ad for Keck Medical Center of USC. In that single sentence, the copy writer does ...

The couple is going to purchase the house? Or the couple are going to purchase the house? Even after all my years of editing, I can still get tripped up trying to make verbs agree with collective ...

Narrator: Looks like you've caught more than you expected there. Fisherman: Help! There's a beast. I'm trapped on the lake. My boat is stuck. Narrator: Nice use of your nouns there. Beast, lake and ...

20 Words and Phrases Smart People Don't Use 10 Common Words That You'll Only Find in English 24 Words That Don’t Mean What You Think They Do 25 Words You Think Are Synonyms but Aren't 12 Overused ...

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