Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: A simple rule for nouns that are singular and plural at the same time

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: When ‘each’ isn’t a pronoun, the rules can get tricky

OK, fellow wordy types: See if you can spot the grammar mistake I fixed when editing the following sentence. “Our team wrote, published and promoted a series of 12 human interest stories that each ...
Christian Science Monitor

Choosing agreeable verbs for collective nouns

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
BBC

Grammar Reference

However, there are many types of noun and noun phrase in English, and it can be difficult to know if a particular noun takes a singular verb (such as DOES / HAS / AM / IS ) or a plural verb (DO / HAVE ...
unr.edu

Subject-verb agreement

Subject-verb agreement means that your verb must be conjugated, or changed, to fit (or agree) with the subject. Subjects can be singular or plural. Think of singular and plural as mathematical ...