English loves to pretend it has rules, then breaks every single one the moment plurals show up. This quick rundown covers the ...

English plurals can be simple—just add “-s” or “-es”—but irregular forms like “child” to “children” or “mouse” to “mice” often trip up learners. Mastering these patterns, along with avoiding common ...

Could it be that these are animals that were hunted, fished, or herded and that there was a convention that used the singular as a sort of generic plural when going after these creatures for sport or ...

Usually English plurals are pretty easy. Just add s: one dog, two dogs. We know some plurals don't use s: children, deer. There are some nouns that we seem to use only in the plural: thanks, ...

Lots of languages have distinct plural forms for you. When talking to more than one person, the French use vous; the Italians, voi; the Spanish, ustedes; and the Germans, ihr. Wouldn't it be useful if ...

Think you know your plurals? From everyday words like "tomato" to tricky Latin and Greek forms like "nucleus" and "appendix," this 25-question quiz will put your grammar skills to the ultimate test.

Algae thrives in sunlight. Or is it algae thrive? These are the questions that can broadside a copy editor years, even decades, into her career. When it comes to English, there’s never a point where ...

Take our English quiz and find out if you know the plurals of these tricky words. Is the word 'sheep' singular or plural? What is the plural form of 'information'? While you can derive the plurals of ...

For more than a millennium after the fall of Rome, educated Europeans were distinguished by their knowledge of Latin. One of the three subjects of the trivium—the basic tier of a classical education, ...

Around 1.7 billion people speak English. Learning English isn't that hard, but remembering its tricky grammar rules is quite challenging. If someone asks you what the plural of 'frog' is, you may ...