American or British, "a group" of anything is always singular in my book. collective noun ( grammar ) a singular noun, such as 'committee' or 'team, that refers to a group of animals, people or things, and, in BrE, can be

. 1. Hospital tapes is the oldest application. Do you think the use of the plural form of a noun is correct here with a singular verb?-- Grammar requires 'are'. The sentence is arranged to make the accord awkward, with a plural noun

Even though a singular noun after any is common, I would only use a plural verb in your fragment: If any of you are offended... For a singular verb, I would say: If any one of you is offended... CB

Hi Mach 2, thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums! We like to talk about countable and uncountable nouns. (Sometimes a given noun may act one way at one time and the other way at another time.) Both types could involve scalar quantities.

The nouns to which the "is" is referring to, are all singular compound nouns, hence the use of the singular verb "is". "two", "three", etc are compound nouns in the singular. Same as other compound singular

singular noun, third person singular verb: The bucket lies / exists on the floor. plural noun, third person plural verb: The glasses lie / exist / stay on that stand. - A.

Hi B-A Below is for your information. What is ‘concord’? There must be grammatical logic or coherence in the links between parts of a sentence . This is called 'agreement' or 'concord'. EXAMPLES The boy is swimming.

Hi LiJ, Perhaps you caught that error in my recent post. It was illogical for me to write "more than (one options)." Since I made that error, it is better for me to borrow this text from The American Heritage Book of English Usage to

Does anybody want -- once you conjugate the verb "to do" as you have in "Does" the other verb takes the bare infinitive form. That means it's the "to X" version without the "to." However, the word "Flicers" is a singular noun, so it takes the

The sentences are correct, but your supervisor is out to lunch. Obviously, third-person singular nouns like "the agency" take third-person singular verbs, which DO end in S, for normal, declarative sentences. The agency reviews... However, in