Pop quiz. Which is correct? “The dogs are outside” or “The dogs is outside.” I don’t even have to hear your answer to give you an A. Anyone reading an English-language newspaper surely knows that ...

'Subject' is an example of a homograph - words that have two different pronunciations and two different meanings even though they are spelt the same. Read on to learn more about how to use it as a ...

Many years ago, India-based reader Surajit Dasgupta wrote me for advice on how best to deal with this sentence whose subject is such a monstrously long noun form: “Isolated instances of terrorist ...

LET’S take a close look at this seemingly no-brainer subject-verb agreement situation presented recently in Jose Carillo’s English Forum by Jhumur Dasgupta, a member from India: “Which sentence is ...