The couple is going to purchase the house? Or the couple are going to purchase the house? Even after all my years of editing, I can still get tripped up trying to make verbs agree with collective ...

Nouns are words that name people, places or things. For example, ‘man’ and ‘kitchen’ are nouns. One word is naming a person and the other is naming a place. ‘Cake’ is another example. Frank is baking ...