A recent headline from the Los Angeles Times, “Teens plotting attacks tend to tip their hand,” highlights a particularly difficult grammar problem. Do plural teens really share a singular hand? No.

Betsy in Albany had a great question about "I" versus "me." Consider the sentence: "John's hidden agenda was to make George and I say nice things about him." Should that "I" be "me"? Advertisement ...

WE all know that when a sentence uses a transitive verb as the operative verb, it's absolutely necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: "The woman spurned her suitor last ...