Have you made the mistake of mismatching pronouns? Almost everyone has. That includes the venerable and usually perfectly grammatical New York Times, most of your favorite writers–and me. I have a ...

Dogmatic opponents of using they with singular antecedents don’t argue for its wrongness; they simply assert. Rebecca Gowers, in her revised update of her great-grandfather’s classic usage book Plain ...

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 ...

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 ...