See anything wrong with that sentence? Most people probably don’t, but there is a problem with it and, for me, the problem is eye-opening. Here’s the issue: If you want to be as proper and correct as ...

Like the subject, the object is usually a noun (‘the piano’) or a noun phrase, (‘the big, black piano’). Verbs that take objects describe some kind of action rather than a state of being.

I don’t usually read advice columns. If I need to tell my great-grandmother to lay off the Cuervo or tell a co-worker I don’t want to attend her nudist wedding, I can find the words without any help.

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 ...

Like the subject, the object is usually a noun (‘the piano’) or a noun phrase, (‘the big, black grand piano’). Verbs that take objects describe some kind of action rather than a state of being.

When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” “Her suitor found a ...

The manifest world comprises perceptions of the body, emotions of the mind and thoughts of the intellect. The world is the object of experience while the Self within, the unmanifest subject of ...