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 ...

Every year in this column, I give tips for how to avoid the most common writing mistakes in holiday greetings and invitations. And every year, I’m reminded of just how influential I’m not as people ...

On October 22nd, at 2:50 P.M., @APStylebook tweeted a series of guidelines about how to punctuate possessives of nouns that end in “S”: “For possessives of plural nouns ending in s, add only an ...

Pluralizing a last name can seem confusing—and it gets even more confusing when you want to make a name both plural and possessive. Let’s suppose your last name is Jones, and you and your family want ...

As any regular reader of this column can tell you, possessives aren't as hard as they seem. Usually, if you just take it slow and remember the rules, you can avoid mistakes like "the Smith's house" ...

DEAR WORD COURT: According to a fourth-grade homework worksheet my daughter brought home, the possessive of "class" is "class's."I told her that was wrong and explained that the rule is very simple: ...

Nouns in Spanish have different forms in the singular and plural. Plural masculine and feminine nouns in Spanish end in s. There are some rules to follow to work out how to change the end of a noun to ...