I recently fielded questions about two subject-verb agreement errors that readers noticed in the media. One was heard on an NPR program. The other was committed by, um, a columnist who should have ...

Active voice keeps readers interested and engaged. You can use Microsoft Word features to find passive verbs, and even entire passive sentences, while you compose your documents. Configure the Word ...

The words ‘who’, ‘whom’, ‘which’, ‘whoever’, ‘whomever’, ‘whichever’, and ‘that’ are known as relative pronouns in the English language. A relative pronoun connects a phrase to a noun or pronoun. Thus ...

I don’t think I’ve ever written a column on the word “neither.” And considering how long I’ve been writing this column — more than 20 years — that’s not just odd. It’s suspicious, as if I’ve been ...

Passive and active voice simply refer to the relationship of the subject to the verb. In a sentence using the active voice, the subject of the sentence (doer) performs the action described by the verb ...