Whether you write “The 80s are or sweep” or “The 80s were or have turned around” depends on whether you consider the decade as a single unit of time, or whether you take into account trends or events that have occurred over certain years. If you are considered a single unit of time, you could write: “The decade of the 80s is coming back” or “The decade of the 80s is coming back” to dispel any doubts. For us, it is grammatically difficult to consider the plural expression of the 80s as a single collective noun. I actually thought it was the people who love you, because “people” is plural, it takes a singular verb, but someone told me his `people love you`, because `people` may seem plural, but it is counted as singular. The much a phrase is followed by a singular name and takes a singular verb. Then write: “Many citizens of a country are willing to live with the world.” But I`m writing a friend`s book (a commentary on the book of the Galatians) and I came across a grammatical structure that is usual, but I just don`t know what`s considered right. My friend wrote: “The society these men kept were those who neglected the work of Christ and chose instead to justify themselves by the acts of the law.” Strictly speaking, “company” is the subject and should, because it is singular, adopt a singular verb. So it sounds a bit “wrong,” as he wrote. But the verb in the singular “was” to change, sounds even worse. I`m going to leave it like “were” because “it was,” it sounds horrible. “A team is training.

Two teams train. I don`t see what`s complicated. Singular subunity – singular verb; plural noun – plural verb. I read that the British as a group of units feel collective nouns, and that is why they use the prurial form with them. We can therefore conclude that grammar rules are not always based on logic. In our article 6 of the reference and verb convention, it says, “As a general rule, you use a plural verb with two or more subjects when they are related.” I am a researcher and I want to know the most common errors in the agreement between subjects and verbs, and I would like to have a part of the theoretical and conceptual framework of your book. I will use it as a reference. We often use plural verbs when we talk about collective nouns that do human-like things, including, eating, wanting to feel for example. It`s a different situation from the phrase: “A man does and does all the work.” One could also enter the list of pronouns of Rule 8, “The pronouns of each, each, each, each, one, someone, someone, someone and someone are singularly and require singular verbs. Don`t be misled about the following. Since this sentence does not contain who, this or which, follow Article 8: One of the men does all the work. In your sentence, the word staff is a collective Nov that acts as a unit. This is why, in American English, it is treated as a single name and uses the singular verb meets. However, in British English, staff would not be considered a forgery.

Our rule 7 of the subject-verbal agreement says: “Use a single verb with distances, periods, sums of money, etc., if they are considered a unit.” In addition, our rule 1 of number writing says: “Spell out all the numbers starting a sentence.” So writing 25 years of classes taught me… 12.