Q: While completing a summer camp evaluation survey, I was not sure whether to use a singular or plural verb for this sentence: “The staff (was/were) very friendly throughout the session.” Which is ...

"She is one of those who wears a lot of jewelry." A friend asked if this sentence is grammatically correct, whether it should be "wear" instead of "wears." This type of sentence generally requires a ...

Last week I discussed subject-verb agreement. Many of you wrote and asked about sports teams, particularly sports teams whose names don’t end in “s”: are they considered singular or plural? Would you ...

It’s spring cleaning time — an opportunity to sweep out dust bunnies lurking in recesses of recent reading. Let’s start with various forms of disagreement between singular and plural elements in a ...

Some keen-eared Radio National listeners recently took issue with the following sentence, delivered on a book review program: "There's heartbreaking scenes in Murakami's new novel." It's not that the ...