The couple is going to purchase the house? Or the couple are going to purchase the house? Even after all my years of editing, I can still get tripped up trying to make verbs agree with collective ...

If there’s more than one of something then you need to make the noun plural. Nouns in Spanish can be singular or plural. There are different ways of making a noun plural in Spanish, depending the noun ...

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about English grammar and usage — most of which I promptly forgot. And not for lack of use. Every day I apply what I’ve learned to catch and fix writers’ mistakes.