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This tag applies to questions that deal with grammatical number: “singular” versus “plural”, and (rarely) also “dual”.

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"Beans is our only option" or "Beans are our only option"— which is correct? [duplicate]

This sentence is in the context of dinner. Beans is/are our only option I'm confused as to whether "is" or "are" is necessary in this construct.
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"There is" or "There are": which is appropriate before "a whole slew of academic articles"? [duplicate]

There are a whole slew of academic articles. To me, it seems that this sentence should say "There is a whole slew of academic articles," because the agreement should be with "slew." But I'm havin …
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