Possessives come up a lot in this column. That’s no surprise. They’re some of the most perplexing issues in English, as we saw in our recent column on Jess’s vs. Jess’ (P.S. both are acceptable). But ...

In the animal kingdom, more than one moose are still moose, while a mongoose and his friends are mongooses, yet a goose and her flock are geese. Go figure. An error ...

Have you ever corrected someone mid-conversation because what he said just didn't sound right? What I'm talking about is words that sound like plurals and possessives but shouldn't be and vice versa.

Everyone knows that the holidays are a great time to show your good will to man. But they’re also a great time to show your backside. From spiked eggnog to shameless re-gifting to caroling “the Lord ...

The word ‘plural’ comes from the Old French ‘plurel’ which means ‘more than one’. A noun is a word used to identify something.There are a lot of nouns.There are many patterns to look out for when you ...

A natural follow-up to my last column about words that live in the plural seemed to be one about words that don't get the regular "s" at the end. Certain words shun the final "s" to become plural.

Is the verb after the phrase ‘number of’ singular or plural? A simple rule is that if ‘the’ precedes the phrase ‘number of’, then the verb after the phrase is singular. For example, n The number of ...

A noun is a word used to identify something.There are a lot of nouns.There are many patterns to look out for when you turn a noun into a plural noun.Let’s look at a few of these patterns. In some ...