Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Forming a plural is pretty easy, right? You just add an “s” to something. Unless, of course, it’s a word ...

Can you spot the grammatical error here? We’ve all committed this common punctuation mistake when making last names plural—and it’s even easier to make now in ...

Every year in this column, I give tips for how to avoid the most common writing mistakes in holiday greetings and invitations. And every year, I’m reminded of just how influential I’m not as people ...

The word ‘plural’ comes from the Old French ‘plurel’ which means ‘more than one’. A noun is a word used to identify something.There are a lot of nouns.There are many patterns to look out for when you ...

We all laughed when former Vice President Dan Quayle had trouble spelling “potato” a while back, but some of us might have trouble spelling its plural form. Is it “potatos” or “potatoes”? Here’s a ...

Tom in Glendale wrote recently to ask about plurals of names ending in S. “How do you pluralize a name like Ross?” he asked. “It has to be Rosses, right? I just saw Ross’ as the plural, as in ‘the ...

If you were to send my family a letter, you’d have no problem writing out the envelope. My surname is Andersen, so the etiquette rules for writing a plural last name are pretty simple: Just add s! But ...

Pluralizing a last name can seem confusing—and it gets even more confusing when you want to make a name both plural and possessive. Let’s suppose your last name is Jones, and you and your family want ...

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 ...