Our pronouns are sometimes vague, lonely and dangling because we fail to hinge them on a specific unmistakable antecedent. E.g. ‘Shade tells her sister that she is better at mathematics.’ Who does the ...

Have you made the mistake of mismatching pronouns? Almost everyone has. That includes the venerable and usually perfectly grammatical New York Times, most of your favorite writers–and me. I have a ...

Collective nouns such as "them" take the singular if they are acting as a unit and the plural if they are acting as individuals. Ex: The team (as individuals) decide today if they want to strike. The ...

I have a friend who regularly calls and, the moment I answer, bursts into a sentence like this: “So did you hear that they gave him the thing and after they did she saw it and said that they didn’t ...

Two weeks ago, we started the series on word classes. And last week, we delved into report writing. I thought it would be useful to intersperse the series, so we go back to word classes this week. We ...

This week’s article focuses on additional uses of the pronoun for communicative contexts. We shall be considering the following types of pronouns: reflexive and intensive pronouns, interrogative ...

Do you have a clear idea of what an antecedent in English grammar is? Recall now that an antecedent is the noun, noun phrase, or noun clause that a pronoun refers to in a sentence. It’s normally found ...

A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun or noun phrase. You probably use them every day without realising it. ‘Me’, ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘we’. Pronouns. This is Dave… Dave: Hello! ‘Dave is a crane ...