TASK DEFINITION: In this task you are given a sentence. You must judge whether subject of the main clause is singular or plural. Label the instances as "Singular" or "Plural" based on your judgment.
PROBLEM: Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner.

SOLUTION: Plural

PROBLEM: Several minutes later, footsteps sounded across the wooden floor, and Noah joined me at the window.

SOLUTION: Plural

PROBLEM: And the oil lamp, though it was treacherously close, made it into a little tent of sorts around her.

SOLUTION:
Singular