I've mentioned before that twice a month I get together with a friend who lives an hour away. We let our kids play, and often help each other out with projects. Sometimes we work on fun things like making Jedi costumes for a birthday party, but other times, like today, we tackle the not-so-fun stuff. The stuff that I rarely can motivate … [Read more...]
Archives for October 29, 2010
"Stuff" is Singular
I'm a grammar lover. I know. Nerd alert! Recently, I read a blog post about stuff. She said something like, "All of that stuff are . . . " It sounded funky, and I knew it was grammatically incorrect. Stuff is. That's the problem. We think of stuff as being plural. The stuff probably does consist of quite a few plural items. … [Read more...]