In an item here last week, a reader pointed out the mixing of persons in a sentence that read, "The time has come again for Americans to put aside our differences…." The point was that the pronoun ...

Q: This headline appeared over a newspaper story in The Hartford Courant about anonymous kidney donations: “For whomever needs it most.” Is “whomever” correct because it is the object of the ...

Two weeks ago, we started the series on word classes. And last week, we delved into report writing. I thought it would be useful to intersperse the series, so we go back to word classes this week. We ...

This week’s article focuses on additional uses of the pronoun for communicative contexts. We shall be considering the following types of pronouns: reflexive and intensive pronouns, interrogative ...

LAST week, I explained why the nominative and subjective cases are lumped as just a single case in modern English, thenpointed out that nouns don’t inflect or change form at all in these two cases and ...