A recent headline from the Los Angeles Times, “Teens plotting attacks tend to tip their hand,” highlights a particularly difficult grammar problem. Do plural teens really share a singular hand? No.

WE all know that when a sentence uses a transitive verb as the operative verb, it's absolutely necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: "The woman spurned her suitor last ...

The mind appears to have a consistent way of organizing an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in languages, according to research at the University of ...

Many verbs in English can be used both transitively and intransitively. The object is often not needed when it is obvious what you are talking about. But it may need to be added to clarify what is ...

The rules of grammar you follow while speaking may not reflect what you're thinking. In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that speakers ...

Subject-verb agreement means that your verb must be conjugated, or changed, to fit (or agree) with the subject. Subjects can be singular or plural. Think of singular and plural as mathematical ...

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There’s a difference between me and I. In casual conversation, most people I know don’t worry too much about sounding proper. They don’t bother with “whom.” They say, “There’s a lot of people here” ...

If Kim Jong Il plays charades, his hand gestures might look just like George Bush’s, a new study suggests. It seems that, regardless of the sentence structure of their native tongue, non-verbal ...

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...