Very recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that “money doesn’t grow on trees” during his speech to the nation where he defended his economic reforms. If the popular saying is changed to “Monies ...

A noun is a thing, e.g. cat, room, exam. Most of the time, we can talk about how many of these things we have: Bobby has three cats at home! It’s amazing how many rooms are empty in our school. I have ...

I was asked this intriguing grammar question recently by a member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum, Lyndon Gabato: “May I know if ‘percent’ is a countable noun or not? Someone asked me if 10% is a ...

Yasuhiro Chasi from Japan now studying in the US writes: Could you please tell me when to use the plural form of a noun after words like any and no? For example, it seems that people tend to say: I ...