IS MY BAND’S NAME SINGULAR OR PLURAL?
I received the following question about singular/plural usage. It’s one a lot of people struggle with, so I’m posting it here, with my response. The basic question is: should a group of [...]
EDITING OUT THE PASSIVE
A friend submitted an article to a journal. The reviewer wanted the passive voice removed from the beginning of a particular section of the article, and the friend wanted to know what's [...]
ALL IS CALM… OR ARE IT?
A friend asked me recently about all. Her sentence was going to run something like this: All I wanted was my blue bathrobe, a toothbrush, and the fuzzy slippers with the sheep [...]