Our pronouns are sometimes vague, lonely and dangling because we fail to hinge them on a specific unmistakable antecedent. E.g. ‘Shade tells her sister that she is better at mathematics.’ Who does the ...

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 ...

I have a friend who regularly calls and, the moment I answer, bursts into a sentence like this: “So did you hear that they gave him the thing and after they did she saw it and said that they didn’t ...

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 ...