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1. Singular subjects take a singular verbs; plural subjects take a plural verbs.
2. Every and each are always followed by singular nouns, even if nouns are connected by and
3. Gerunds used as the subject require a singular verb.
4. In most expression of quantity, the verb is determined by the noun or pronoun that follows of.
5. Each of, one of, every one of take singular verbs.
6. The subject follows be when there is used (there is/are + subject)
7. Irregularities
a. news is singular
b. fields of study that end in –ics require singular verbs
c. certain illnesses that end in –s are singular: diabetes, measles, mumps, rabies, shingles
d. expressions of time, money, and distance usually require singular verbs
e. arithmetic expressions require singular verbs
f. a few adjectives that are preceded by the can be used as a plural noun to refer to people
who have that quality (the poor, the blind, the disabled)