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| Throws vs. Throes The words throes and throws are homophones: they sound alike but have different meanings. The plural noun throes means a great struggle or a condition of agonizing pain or trouble. The idiom in the t… |
| British Approach to Group Nouns As an interesting aside, the British always use plural verbs with collective nouns. On May 15, 2001, I was watching a BBC-produced documentary about a blues musician who made a comeback. Describing t… |
| collective noun A collective noun, also called a group noun, refers to a group of persons or things. Examples include group, number, majority, team, and many others. In American English, when individual members o… |
| subjunctive mood First, understand this: The word mood has nothing to do with frame of mind, as in happy or sad. It actually refers to mode, which is the attribute of a verb suggesting the speaker's attitude toward t… |
| Comment vs. Commentary Comment Comment is a short statement or remark about something one has seen or experienced. For example, ‘your shoes are nice’ is a comment on the shoes, ‘it was a funny movie’ is also a comment. Com… |
| Monies vs. Moneys Monies vs. Moneys: Navigating Variations in Plural Forms Understanding the differences between "monies" and "moneys" involves recognizing variations in plural forms. This article aims to clarify the … |
| Count Nouns By now, we have come across multiple types of nouns and pronouns in our everyday language. You might also vaguely remember a lesson about count nouns from your High school English class. All these ty… |
| Fused Participle - Solutions Whenever you use a noun or pronoun followed by an ‑ing verb, you must figure out whether the issue of the fused participle even arises. Figure out what noun function you need in your sentence. Is it … |
| Story vs. Storey Story An absolutely common word, story is used by everyone to describe events that are real or imaginary, usually told for entertainment. Story can be short or long and can describe past, present, or… |
| “They-Their-Them” In the future, it will likely be regarded as correct to use third-person plural pronouns they-their-them to refer back to singular indefinite pronouns. In fact, the trend shows that they-their-them w… |
| Lets vs. Let’s Lets vs. Let's A common misspelling that occurs more and more often is the wrong replacement of "lets" with "let's" and vice versa. Good news is that you can easily observe and fix this erro… |
| Either-Neither-Both 1. With too and so respectively Differences between Either and too (both either and too are used at the end of a sentence) – Consider this example – Person 1 – I got good marks. Person 2 – I got go… |
| indefinite pronoun Indefinite pronouns enable us to refer to any one, any two, several, or all in a group or class of persons or things or ideas. Examples include: all, another, anyone, each, someone, everybody, none, … |
| What Nouns Do What do nouns do in our language? It’s crucial that you know, for you cannot begin to engage in any kind of grammatical analysis without knowing the roles of all eight parts of speech. The main ro… |
| Nouns - Definition, Overview, and Lists of Examples Welcome What's a noun? Below you’ll find links to our discussion on nouns. We recommend that you start with the first topic,Nouns - Words That Name. At the bot… |
| Person - Three People Only Three People Exist on Earth Amber, Igor, and Miss Hamrick realized a long time ago that people mostly talk about only one thing—other people. That is, they gossip. They recog… |
| Case - Subjective, Objective, Possessive Pronoun Case - Watch Out Remember the section on nouns? Remember those nuggets of information we tucked away for the future? Remember those paragraphs mentioning the case of prono… |
| Table of Personal Pronouns You might want to bookmark this page. Now let’s put it all together. The first table below shows singular personal pronouns; the second, plural personal pronouns. Singu… |
| Chapter 1 - Subject-Verb Disagreement “There’s lots of these mistakes.” Way too many people have forgotten the rule: A subject must agree with its verb in number. A singular subject demands a singular verb. A plural s… |
| Three Rules on Subject-Verb Agreement There are, of course, many other kinds of mistakes made with subjects and verbs. Classifying the types often helps reduce the mistakes you might make. But first, a review of the basics. Let’s s… |
| conjugation The process of conjugation shows the forms of a verb as it appears in all tenses. Conjugation reveals tense (when), person (who), number (how many, singular or plural), and mood (showing the way the … |
| reciprocal pronoun We have only two of these pronouns, and they come in pairs: each other and one another. We use them to show some sort of a relationship between two or more people or larger groups. In formal setti… |
| tense In traditional English grammar, we have six tenses of verbs: 1. present tense (I decide) 2. past tense (I decided) 3. future tense (I will decide) 4. present-perfect tense (I have decided… |
| 4. Demonstrative Pronouns Four Important Words: This, That, These, and Those These four words can serve as demonstrative pronouns or as demonstrative adjectives. This, That, These, Those - Pronouns… |
| Indices vs. Indexes Indices vs. Indexes "Indices" is frequently used wrongly in various phrases, presentations and speeches, because it is often confused for "indexes". Some think these words refer to the same thing … |
