When a compound subject contains “and,” it’s easy to make the verb match: You and a loved one have coverage. By nature, “and” makes singular things plural: Ned is. Nancy is. Ned and ...

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 ...

I recently fielded questions about two subject-verb agreement errors that readers noticed in the media. One was heard on an NPR program. The other was committed by, um, a columnist who should have ...

Dictionaries say "whereabouts" is one of those words that may be used with either a singular or a plural verb. One reference book says the use of a plural verb is 10 times more common in print.

Among the hardiest of questions is a poser that ought not to be a poser: Does "none" take a singular or plural verb? The New York Times likes it plural: "None of the officials whose actions were ...

necessitating the plural verb. However, if politics is used to denote the ‘science of governance’, it is assigned a singular verb as earlier shown. The nouns News, Mathematics, Physics and ...

It depends. Politics is/are a noun that can either be used with a singular or plural verb. Like a tie-breaking legislative vote, politics can go either way. The following rules we discuss for ...

Most verbs follow the same pattern as this verb. Singular (one person or thing) Plural (more than one person or thing) Look at the verb next to ‘she, he, it’ in the table: plays. This has the ...