My layman's explanation: The core subject is "refreshments", as in the sentence "The refreshments were inadequate". "What ... were provided" qualifies "refreshments", but can't change it from plural

According to some english gramma book, It is said that "what clause " can be the subject of the sentence and it is considered as a single entity , so it take singular verb. eg. What he referred to makes me want to follow up.

So, what is the correct answer? (i) There is a pair of shoes beside the flower pot. (ii) The pair of shoes is next to the flower pot. (iii) There is / are a pair of shoes near the flower pot. (iv) These are shoes and flower pot. Use a singular

the western powers（right） so should I say America is a powers or America is powers or any other expression? Can we use this word to express a country? If we can use this word to express a country,should we use plural verb or singular verb?

It's a little difficult to search for examples; but among these googles from the BBC website you can find a few where the antecedent of "their" is "team" + singular verb. It is a BrE tendency, though, as I say.

Hi, Please confirm these for me: the United Nations => + singular verb?   SINGULAR Sea Games, Olympic Games => + plural verb?   BOTH PLURAL Thank you very much, Nessie.

Hi, Please confirm these for me: the United Nations => + singular verb? Sea Games, Olympic Games => + plural verb? Thank you very much, Nessie.

1) Each of the so many objects is painted. 2) Each of the so many objects are painted. iMO, the sentence should read "Each of the many objects is painted." (remove 'so') 'Each' should followed by a singular verb (in this

I mean: which is correct? (a) My hobby is reading and drawing. (b) My hobbies are reading and drawing. Sometimes, two things are so closely related that we consider them as a single thing, and therefore it takes the

1- Her family are well, because each one of them is fine (it is not seen as a group or a collective noun as some of them may not be well. So all the members are well. ( All the members of the family are well.) 2- When you send an invitation to