Let's talk about the plurals of compound nouns. I submit to you: passers-by, hangers-on, attorneys general, brothers-in-law, and culs-de-sac. What about "month end" how would that be pluralized?

When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar. As an owner of a 19th century home, all of my doors are ajar. I’m plumb out of doors that shut properly. Just as those wonky door puns make you groan, words ...

We can demonstrate the link between two nouns either by using possessive forms (the US bank's finance division / the finance division of the US bank) or compound nouns (the US bank finance division).

Use the present tense to describe what is happening right now, what you do regularly or what you do in an ongoing situation. Future tense Conveying the future in German can be done in several ways - ...

How do you avoid grammar snafus on the web? You need to learn basic capitalization rules for online writing. Keep this list of rules close just in case. You sit down to write an amazing post for your ...

In the preceding six chapters, we reviewed the various types of parallelism when constructing sentences. We saw how using the same function words can match and balance the clauses and phrases in a ...

When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar. As an owner of a 19th century home, all of my doors are ajar. I’m plumb out of doors that shut properly. —Curtis Honeycutt is a syndicated humor columnist.

I thought about using Mr. & Dr. Stock for us but I figure it's better formally if I just claim her Ph.D. as my own and use Dr. & Mrs. Stock.