That may sound normal to British English speakers, but for Americans it illustrates the most important lesson about collective nouns: Go with what sounds best. June Casagrande is the author of ...

DALLAS --A drawing of JFK, Stalin and two strippers has sparked outrage among some parents at a Texas high school after a teacher used it in class to illustrate the importance of the Oxford comma ...

Lesson 1: Don’t Capitalize Terms That Have ... “In its generic sense, internet is a common noun, a synonym for internetwork; therefore, it has a plural form and is not capitalized.

“Do remember to sit up straight.” On a blackboard he has scrawled a deliberately ambiguous sentence: “Today we are having a grammar lesson which is very unusual.” A single comma would ...