Few were planning to attend the dance. The media are responsible for reporting fair and accurate news. Some vertebrae were crushed in the accident. The criteria for the candidates were rigid. The data are compiled and ready for analysis.
Bacteria are everywhere in the tenement building.
The singular or plural subject 1. Neither the lawyer nor the defendants have decided to plead guilty. The books or the table has to go. Collective nouns and certain words that are plural in form may take either a singular or plural verb. To find out which, decide if the word indicates that people or things are working together as a unit.