By Plural subject, Prepositions

1. "women" - use plural to match "the elderly" & "are more LIKELY" 2. The goals of our program ARE - use plural verb with plural subject 3. MANY benefits - "Much" is for stuff; "many" is for things you can count. 4. there IS a lot of space (missing verb in clause) ...

1. Whenever I see sentences like the one below, I tend to feel uneasy in part because, I think, I am too stuck on the idea that a plural subject would be likely to be followed by a plural object or an object of a preposition. Are they OK? Are they basically saying the same thing? How many...