When phrases like “as well as” are attached to a singular subject, it stays singular
An each can emphasize the "everyone has their own X" and can override this
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However, when a pronoun is used as a Subject, the verb always agrees with the pronoun
Certainly many usage guides have advised against use of this " singular they " on various "logical" grounds
” When you’re using it in a sentence, you can say
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The MLA advises writers to always follow the personal pronouns of individuals they write
If each of the "their" has an X, then you are talking about multiple Xs, and should use the plural form of X
When you talk about yourself, you should say, “I do” as in “I do the dishes,” not “I does the dishes
When the words in a compound subject are joined by “and,” it is plural
ET, the company had restored “three-quarters” of its network
The Boston Celtics got their season sweep of the New York Knicks with their eighth consecutive victory, 116-102
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Singular they, along with its inflected or derivative forms, them, their, theirs, and themselves (also themself and theirself ), is a gender-neutral third-person pronoun
The rules around using “any” as a singular or plural word can confuse English language speakers of all levels
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As John Lawler points out in a comment to this question, the grammatical number of a negative is arbitrarily set
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And although series is a singular noun whose very meaning implies a plurality (“made a series of mistakes”), it can be pluralized just like any other count noun
That would signify that the upcoming word may or may not be plural, as the (s) does, adding more clarity to the overall sentence
123 section G1-d) you treat most indefinite pronouns as singular so the answer is "was
We will note that they has been in consistent use as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s; that the development of Forming possessive singular nouns to words that don’t end in “S” is pretty straightforward: All you have to do is add an apostrophe + “S”
In fact, “you” is even more syncretic than that, because it can act as either a subject or an object
") However, "you" was originally only plural (along with "ye")
It is generally used with uncountable and plural countable nouns in questions and negative statements, though it may be used with a singular countable noun for emphasis
If you try to do a strict grammatical analysis of this sentence, you will run into problems