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Grammar expert June Casagrande has written this column for 20 years and has never written about why she avoids using the word ...
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More subject-verb agreement quandaries

Although English-language verbs generally don’t inflect or change in form to agree with the subject in number, they do so in the present tense, third-person singular. In English grammar, in this ...
Faith seeks the ancient Aristotelian ideal of virtue (aretē or excellence). The Greek verb for fixing one’s focus is ...
The word alongside is crucial to our understanding of how concord functions in English. It functions in a way that is similar to how each of the following expressions functions: as well as; together ...
Discover the 10 most common mistakes Israelis make when speaking English — from tricky grammar slips to pronunciation ...
Our discussion of flat adverbs continues today as we, firstly, add more examples. I hope you remember what flat adverbs are: ...
What is language, why do we use it, and how did it evolve? These are questions that language researchers are still working to answer. From a basic standpoint, a language is a shared system of symbols ...
The period between now and October 29 is quite treacherous for members of the profession touted as the Fourth Estate, or ...
With over 25 years of work put into it, Vile Parle-based educator Sneha Asaikar’s pioneering dictionary project bridges the gap between the complex language of ...
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People who knew me, of course, never asked if I had kids. Instead, they’d inquire either directly or furtively about details ...