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 ...

As terse as they normally are, newspaper headlines are designed to get your attention by, as much as possible, summarizing the main body text. Two words in last week’s headline of this column; ...

Time passes. Fashions change. One runs out of gin and similes. On the matter of "none is" and "none are," let us say no more. The plural verb has won, the singular has lost, and this duck is a dead ...