| A | B |
|---|
| The ears of a bloodhound [is / are] long and droopy. | [are] - ignore prepositional phrase (of a bloodhound) between subject (ears) and verb. |
| Here [is / are] the groceries. | [are] - Don't let reverse order of subject (groceries) and verb confuse you in sentence beginning HERE or THERE. |
| Of all the courses I took in school, mathematics [was / were] my favorite. | [was] - Don't be fooled by words ending in S that are actually single (mathematics). |
| Consumers who have a yen for sugar [love / loves] this product. | [love] - Ignore clauses (who have a yen for sugar) between subject (consumers) and verb. |
| Ghostbusters [is / are] a very silly movie. | [is] - Titles of works of art (yeah, movies count as works of art), names of countries, and organizations = singular. |
| Ms. Wooten (whether or not you like her and her fanatical friends) [has / have] the same rights as you do. | [has] ignore parenthetical phrases between subject (Ms. Wooten) and verb. |
| One blixby cell [becomes / become] many blixby cells by dividing. | [becomes] - If the subject (cell) and the predicate nominative (cells) differ in number, make the verb agree with the subject. |
| Everybody [call / calls] me on my cell phone. | [calls] - Everybody (like each, either, neither, one, -one, -body) is an indefinite pronoun that is always singular. |
| Both of them [sings /sing] out of tune. | [sing] - Both (few, several, many) = always plural |
| Some of the pies [is / are] blueberry. | [are] - IT DEPENDS indefinite pronoun - look at object of preposition (pies) to figure out the right verb. |
