How many kinds of noun clauses are there in English? A Russian member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum who goes by the username Ivan Ivanov asked me this question recently, observing that as far as he ...

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or concepts, ...

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

A school of fish is a collective noun that refers to a specific group of things, animals, or people, all with a singular form. Credit: Georgette Douwma/Getty Images There are more than ten different ...

Last week’s column discussed the two general forms of noun clauses in English, namely finite noun clauses and nonfinite noun clauses. A finite noun clause is a subordinate clause in which the ...