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 ...

As terse as they normally are, newspaper headlines are designed to get your attention by, as much as possible, summarizing the main body text. Two words in last week’s headline of this column; ...

The verb in a sentence is the word that shows action or being. The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that's doing the action, or being something. Hello. I'm Mrs Shaukat and we're going to ...

Some keen-eared Radio National listeners recently took issue with the following sentence, delivered on a book review program: "There's heartbreaking scenes in Murakami's new novel." It's not that the ...

The time is at hand to tend a few perennials in our garden of prose. Among the hardiest of questions is a poser that ought not to be a poser: Does "none" take a singular or plural verb? The New York ...

Grammar expert June Casagrande has written this column for 20 years and has never written about why she avoids using the word ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the course of this paper we analyze the functioning of agreement in the variety of Arabic currently spoken in the Iranian province of ...