Hyphenation

  Do you bring a friend to the movies or do you take a friend to the movies? The answer isn't always clear.

  Do good things come to he who waits? Or do good things come to him who waits? When a pronoun has a relationship with two different clauses, it can be hard to know whether it's a subject or an object. Here's what you need to know.

  Reaching into her purse, Mary pulled out her phone … Participial phrases like "reaching into her purse" are an indispensable part of the English language. But they're also common culprits in bad prose — inserting unnecessary or obvious information or linking ideas in ways that don't quite …

  Most nouns form their plural by adding s or, in some cases, es. But lots of words, especially words adapted from foreign languages, don't follow that pattern. Some of them give you a choice. For example, indexes and indices are both correct in English. But how do you know where to find answ…