Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.

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 ...

Writers and language geeks inherit a ranking system of sorts: verbs good, adjectives bad, nouns sadly unavoidable. Verbs are action, verve! “I ate the day / Deliberately, that its tang / Might quicken ...

Personified as colorful monsters in this grammatical learning journey, nouns Person, Place, and Thing head via bus to a museum (“a place noun”) to find their ilk—words that “give names to the world ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Forming a plural is pretty easy, right? You just add an “s” to something. Unless, of course, it’s a word ...

It's all too easy for students to float away on abstract words. Here's how to get them back on solid ground. It's a crucial question for those who want to reform the teaching of writing, because once ...