English - Advanced Grammar - Subject-verb agreement advanced - Tricky Agreement Cases
6 tricky rules: (1) COLLECTIVE NOUNS: 'The team IS winning' (acting as one unit) vs 'The team ARE arguing' (acting individually). (2) INDEFINITE PRONOUNS: Everyone/somebody/each/nobody = SINGULAR. 'Everyone IS here.' Few/many/several = PLURAL. 'Many WERE late.' (3) 'Either...or' / 'Neither...nor': v