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Learn collective noun agreement with team, family, committee, government, and class, including BrE vs AmE usage, exam traps, common mistakes, and practice.
Each vs every explained with singular agreement, individual vs group meaning, common mistakes, exam traps, and practice questions.
Learn how to find the subject in a confusing sentence by removing extra phrases, clauses, and inverted structures, with examples and practice.
Learn why scissors are, trousers are, and a pair of glasses is are correct, with rules for plural nouns with two parts, common errors, exam traps, and practice.
Learn why news is, mathematics is, and measles is are correct, with rules for singular nouns that end in -s, common mistakes, exam traps, and practice.
Learn subject-verb agreement with as well as, including why the verb agrees with the first subject, common exam traps, examples, and practice.
Learn subject-verb agreement with either/or and neither/nor, including the nearest-subject rule, person agreement, common exam traps, and practice.
Learn how subject-verb agreement works with one of, including one of my friends, one of the students, one of those people who, common mistakes, and practice.
Understand why "be" changes to am, is, are, was, were based on subject person and number. Clear rule with examples and common errors.