Betsy in Albany had a great question about "I" versus "me." Consider the sentence: "John's hidden agenda was to make George and I say nice things about him." Should that "I" be "me"? Advertisement ...

See anything wrong with that sentence? Most people probably don’t, but there is a problem with it and, for me, the problem is eye-opening. Here’s the issue: If you want to be as proper and correct as ...

Direct object pronouns replace the noun that is the object of a sentence (the thing that the verb, or action, is done to). Watch the video to find out how to use direct object pronouns in French. Or ...

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 paper attempts to extend from syntax (basic word order) to morphology (the distribution of pronouns and their exponents) one of the three functional principles that Tomlin (1986) invokes in order ...