Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: If you’re an object in a sentence, use ‘me’

See anything wrong with that sentence? Most people probably don’t, but there is a problem with it and, for me, the problem is eye-opening. Here’s the issue: If you want to be as proper and correct as ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: Subjects and verbs should agree, but it’s not always easy

That’s what a user on an English language message board wanted to know a while back. And if you’ve never thought about this issue before, prepare for some brain pain. As you know, subjects and verbs ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Word Order

English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) word order in simple sentences, as in Students (S) read (V) books (O). This SVO word order becomes altered in many other English sentence ...