Common mistake Possible agreement error: plural noun + singular verb

Common Mistakes in English Grammar

Possible agreement error: plural noun + singular verb

You should probably use a plural verb form after a plural noun:

Example: The dogs are playing in the park.

Possible agreement error: singular noun + plural verb

You should use a singular verb form after a singular noun:

Example: The cat is sleeping on the couch.

Possible agreement error: subject-verb disagreement

Make sure that your subject and verb agree in number:

Example: The book was lying on the table.

Possible agreement error: pronoun-antecedent disagreement

Ensure that the pronoun agrees with its antecedent in gender and number:

Example: He likes to play basketball.

Example: She wants to go shopping.

Possible agreement error: indefinite pronoun agreement

Be careful when using indefinite pronouns such as "everyone" or "someone" as a subject, as they usually take a singular verb:

Example: Everyone is invited to the party.

Possible agreement error: collective nouns

Collective nouns can be treated as singular or plural, depending on the context:

Example: The team is celebrating their victory.

Example: The team are wearing their jerseys.

Possible agreement error: determiner-noun disagreement

Make sure that the determiner agrees with its noun in number:

Example: Both books are interesting.

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Possible agreement error: plural noun + singular verb mistake examples

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The dogs are released.
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The dog is released.
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The dogs barks loudly.

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The dogs bark loudly.
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The media has a lot of influence on the outcome of an election.
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The Times gathers information from fictitious business name filings with the counties; not all listings are new businesses.
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This guys works for the US Sales VP, our contact at Samsung.
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This follows comments made by Enron chairman Kenneth Lay in Friday's issue of Financial Times that Enron is looking to exit from its Indian venture.
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This makes tests based on Fermat's Little Theorem risky.
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The keys issues is still the price, which will probably be revised in accordance to the results of the auction.
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These days parents spend most of their time running their kids around from one activity to the next.

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The dogs are released.
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The dog is released.
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This guys works for the US Sales VP, our contact at Samsung.

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This guy works for the US Sales VP, our contact at Samsung.
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This reports shows schematically the annual average supply movements between regions for 2000 and 2001.

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This report shows schematically the annual average supply movements between regions for 2000 and 2001.
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This follows comments made by Enron chairman Kenneth Lay in Friday's issue of Financial Times that Enron is looking to exit from its Indian venture.

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Many users in Asia wants to learn English.

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Many users in Asia want to learn English.
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The children of American soldiers staying in Japan and Japanese women were...
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The families of flowering plants
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Any workarounds while Steve works on a fix?
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Your suggestions while Mike works on a fix are welcome.
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The prices of corporate bonds rose.
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My children like licorice sticks.
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The names of fruit trees usually end in -era, a suffix derived from Latin -ARIA and they are usually feminine: She wore a red cheongsam.
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No refunds after ticket has been booked.

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The dogs are released.
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The dog is released.
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The black dogs barks loudly.

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The black dogs bark loudly.
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The Canadian Badlands has much to offer.
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The public demands answers.
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The work leaves traces on it.
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The following outlines routes and their stands.
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The new wires companies will come under regulatory scrutiny to become more efficient.
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Several Chinese telecommunications companies, most notably Huawei and ZTE, have been accused of spying for the Chinese military.
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Some primitive cattle breeds display similar coat colours to the aurochs, including the black colour in bulls with a light eel stripe, a pale mouth, and similar sexual dimorphism in colour.

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The dogs of war are released.
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The dog of war is released.
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The dogs of war barks loudly.

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The dogs of war bark loudly.
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This species of butterfly has already gone extinct.
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This box of cereal has expired.

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The dog is released.
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The dogs is released.

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The dogs are released.

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The dog was released.
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The dogs was released.

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The dogs were released.

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The dog of war is released.
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That species of bird is said to be in danger of dying out.
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The dogs of war is released.

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The dogs of war are released.

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The dogs of war are released.
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The dog of war was released.
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The dogs of war was released.

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The dogs of war were released.

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The dogs, sacrificed by the Ichma, are often found with ropes still tied around their necks.
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The dogs, which are specially trained to detect organic matter, patrols the nearly 4,000 vehicles.

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The dogs, which are specially trained to detect organic matter, patrol the nearly 4,000 vehicles.

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Many users in Asia, for example, wants to learn English.

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Many users in Asia, for example, want to learn English.

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The dogs, for instance, are released.
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The black dogs, mostly dachshunds and terrier mixes, barks loudly.

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The black dogs, mostly dachshunds and terrier mixes, bark loudly.
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Its festive pageants, shows, contests and other activities are a...

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The dogs of war are released.
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The dog of war is released.
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The dogs of war, mostly dachshunds and terrier mixes, barks loudly.

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The dogs of war, mostly dachshunds and terrier mixes, bark loudly.

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The dog is released.
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The dogs, Bob and Ben, is released.

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The dogs, Bob and Ben, are released.

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The dog was released.
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The dogs, Bob and Ben, was released.

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The dogs, Bob and Ben, were released.

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The dog of war is released.
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The handling of dynamite is dangerous.
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The dogs of war, finally, is released.

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The dogs of war, finally, are released.

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The dogs of war, however, are released.
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The dog of war, however, was released.
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The dogs of war, however, was released.

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The dogs of war, however, were released.

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The dogs are released.
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The dog is released.
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She wanted to know whether the dogs barks loudly.

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She wanted to know whether the dogs bark loudly.
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How many hours does a scientist work per day?
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Migrate users to Netco Need to check with network security and/or integration team to find out when the users IDs will be converted to run on the Netco network.

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She asked whether the users from Asia wants to learn English.

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She asked whether the users from Asia want to learn English.

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The dogs are released.
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The dog is released.
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How can we know whether the black dogs barks loudly?

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How can we know whether the black dogs bark loudly?
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The Canadian Badlands has much to offer.

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The dogs of war are released.
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The dog of war is released.
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Is this the house in which the dogs of war sleeps each night?

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Is this the house in which the dogs of war sleep each night?

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The dog is released.
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How many stations is the journey to London?
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What happens when the dogs is released?

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What happens when the dogs are released?

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The dog was released.
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What happened when the dogs was released?

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The dog of war is released.
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What happens when the dogs of war is released.

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What happens when the dogs of war are released.

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The dogs of war are released.
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The dog of war was released.
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What happened when the dogs of war was released.

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What happened when the dogs of war were released.

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The dogs, sacrificed by the Ichma, are often found with ropes still tied around their necks.
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Do you know what the dogs, which are specially trained to detect organic matter, eats?

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Do you know what the dogs, which are specially trained to detect organic matter, eat?

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Do you know whether the users from Asia, for example, wants to learn English?

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Do you know whether the users from Asia, for example, want to learn English?

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The dogs, for instance, are released.
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He asked whether the black dogs, mostly dachshunds and terrier mixes, barks loudly.

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He asked whether the black dogs, mostly dachshunds and terrier mixes, bark loudly.

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The dogs of war are released.
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The dog of war is released.
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He asked whether the dogs of war, mostly dachshunds and terrier mixes, barks loudly.

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He asked whether the dogs of war, mostly dachshunds and terrier mixes, bark loudly.

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The dog is released.
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What happens when the dogs, Bob and Ben, is released?

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What happens when the dogs, Bob and Ben, are released?

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The dog was released.
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What happened when the dogs, Bob and Ben, was released.

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What happened when the dogs, Bob and Ben, were released.

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The dog of war is released.
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What happens when the dogs of war, finally, is released.

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What happens when the dogs of war, finally, are released.

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The dogs of war, however, are released.
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The dog of war, however, was released.
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What happened when the dogs of war, two dachshunds, was released.

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What happened when the dogs of war, two dachshunds, were released.

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Does dogs sleep more than 15 hours per day?

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Do dogs|Does dog sleep more than 15 hours per day?
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AIDS means "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome".
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Includes states with more than one recent poll and an average poll margin of less than 10 percentage points.
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Thanks guys for replying.
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Thanks looks good.
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Provides services related to the technical coordination and management of Internet number resources Don't tell anyone Tom and I were here.

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Others authors such as Komarios, and Chymes...

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Cats sleeps more than 15 hours per day.

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Cat sleeps|Cats sleep more than 15 hours per day.
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Users sees LT icon in Word.

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Other authors such as Komarios, and Chymes...
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Media sells a trace of hatred at bargain prices.
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Does dogs sleep more than 15 hours per day?
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AIDS means "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome".
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Sports prototypes, unlike GT cars, do not rely on...
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His does not work.
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Thanks looks good.
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Measles makes people very sick.
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Confetti drops over the crowd as the clock strikes midnight.

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This infrared radiation rises into the atmosphere where gases, such as carbon dioxide, prevents the infrared radiation from escaping into space.

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This infrared radiation rises into the atmosphere where gases, such as carbon dioxide, prevent the infrared radiation from escaping into space.

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This infrared radiation rises into the atmosphere where gases prevents the infrared radiation from escaping into space.

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This infrared radiation rises into the atmosphere where gases prevent the infrared radiation from escaping into space.
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This infrared radiation rises into the atmosphere where gases prevent the infrared radiation from escaping into space.
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... University of Aruba (UA) which offers bachelors and masters programs in law, finance and economic...
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But what matters is that nobody cared.

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The teacher and her students is in the classroom.

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The teacher and her students are in the classroom.
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Each dog and each cat is well groomed.
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Her mother and her father sings a song.

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Her mother and her father sing a song.
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No, and it's not in my pocket either.

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Tina and her father sings a song.

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Tina and her father sing a song.
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Tom and my name is Rishi.

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Each of the children are happy.

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Each of the children is happy.

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Both element are red.

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Both elements are red.
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Both child love my mother.

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Both children love my mother.
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Both aircraft crashed.
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My parents are both fine.
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Both Fresnel and Stokes' theories were popular.

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Both of them believes in God.

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Both of them believe in God.
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Both of them believed in God.

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Cars is useful.

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Cars are|were useful.
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Gambling is forbidden
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Windows is a type of computer operating system.
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Asteroids was so popular that video arcade operators sometimes ...

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The dog is released.
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The dogs of Peter is released.

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The dogs of Peter are released.
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The chemicals in Botox is released.

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The chemicals in Botox are released.

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The dogs of Peter was released.

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The dogs of Peter were released.
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The chemicals in Botox was released.

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The chemicals in Botox were released.

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The smell of apples are great.

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The smell of apples is great.
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The number of Aleut have dwindled to about 2,000.

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The number of Aleut has dwindled to about 2,000.
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The lack of modern post facilities caused trouble for many shippers.
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The people of London are very proud of this bridge.
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The level of arsenic found in Sami's stomach was enough to kill 4 horses.

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