When you start listing plural examples like this ... ‘any,’ and certain uses of ‘some.’ These expressions invariably take a singular verb; we say ‘Every car has (not have) been tested.’ ...

Yet I regularly find myself stumped by some language or editing ... But when one is singular and one is plural, which one governs the verb? “Coyotes or the dog is digging in the yard”?

the noun is singular and takes singular verbs and pronouns. When the members act as individuals, the collective noun is plural and requires plural verb and pronoun.

Dictionaries say "whereabouts" is one of those words that may be used with either a singular or a plural verb. One reference book says the use of a plural verb is 10 times more common in print.

Unfortunately, there are some exceptions to this rule ... about subject-verb agreement because you can conjugate most regular past tense verbs to the singular or plural by adding an -ed to the end of ...

necessitating the plural verb. However, if politics is used to denote the ‘science of governance’, it is assigned a singular verb as earlier shown. The nouns News, Mathematics, Physics and ...

Politics is/are a noun that can either be used with a singular or plural verb. Like a tie-breaking legislative ... a specific set of beliefs. Here are some examples: • Uncle Lance's politics ...

The pronoun has respectably taken both singular and plural verbs for 1,200 years ... "Not every flower produces a seedpod, and some years there are few or none. None of this is not harmful ...