E.g. ‘Shade tells her sister that she is better at mathematics.’ Who does the pronoun ‘she’ refer to? Shade or her unnamed sister? The rule of thumb says that the pronoun refers to the closest noun.

British comedian, actor, and activist Eddie Izzard has been open (and entertainingly so) about cross-dressing for a long time (although it’s not “cross-dressing” for Izzard, who says “I don’t call it ...

Pronouns are linguistic pointers. They can point to someone or something that exists in the actual environment: Or they can point to something in the "conversational environment," roughly, the set of ...

Dogmatic opponents of using they with singular antecedents don’t argue for its wrongness; they simply assert. Rebecca Gowers, in her revised update of her great-grandfather’s classic usage book Plain ...

Do you struggle to correctly use pronouns? If so, you may understandably be wary of the ACT English section. This portion of the ACT contains 75 questions, which you must answer in 45 minutes. More ...