The verb in a sentence is the word that shows action or being. The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that's doing the action, or being something. Hello. I'm Mrs Shaukat and we're going to ...

“Every one of us have a role to play” or “Every one of us has a role to play”? “A bunch of students were waiting outside” or “a bunch of students was waiting outside”? “It is I who am here” or “It is ...

When someone asks how you’re doing, can you respond “I am good”? Or is the only correct form “I am well”? And why? That’s what a caller asked New Yorker copy editor and author Mary Norris on a recent ...

A reader from Coimbatore has sent in this query: “Is it possible for a verb to function as an adjective? Please explain it with some examples.” An adjective is a word that describes (modifies) a noun.

When someone asks how you're doing, can you respond "I am good"? Or is the only correct form "I am well"? And why? That's what a caller asked New Yorker copy editor and author Mary Norris on a recent ...

I HAVE just had the pleasure of reading, in the October Contributors’ Club, a defense of the adjective. It is always balm to the soul of the professor of rhetoric, to hear the dignity of any part of ...

Psychologists, who breathe statistics as a salamander breathes fire, love to count things. They count and classify words to determine what books children should read, what children’s classics should ...

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 ...