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...You were a what? A supervisor? ...It was a what? A Toyota? My contention is that these questions are just turned around from what they should be. Instead of "What were you?" and "What was it?" ...

When an attorney puts two questions (often unrelated) together with an or, you have two choices for punctuation. Use the comma before the or because there is a complete sentence after it, or make ...

There is something in English called an "adverbial objective." It is a noun that answers an adverb question....I will see you tomorrow."Tomorrow" is a noun that in this sentence is answering "when,...

When an abbreviation or a proper name is used as a verb, add apostrophe d for the ending. ...It was later discovered that he had OD'd. ...We Prius'd it for the night instead of taking the big car....

The consistency rule applies for numbers applies to number that measure "like" items and that are in the "same area of the transcript." It does not say that all numbers in the same sentence have to...

"Which is/are" begins an adjective clause. If the clause is necessary to define the word it modifies and could not be removed without losing communication, then there is no comma before it. If the ...

The indirect question always occurs in a dependent clause and never has question word order, i.e., never reverses the subject and verb. The indirect question takes a period. ...I want to know wher...

We need a rule to cover all of the things attorneys do after they ask that basic question. This is the pattern that came up in four different questions on FB. ...Do you know where he is right now?...

When two subjects and verbs joined by a coordinate conjunction share the same object -- now, that sounds like an English teacher, doesn't it? -- there is no comma before the conjunction. ...We lo...