Not long ago in this space, I wrote about exceptions to a grammar rule. I added, "But none of those exceptions apply in modern publishing." Soon after, I got an email from a reader named Charles.

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 ...

“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 ...