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: After what seemed to be a long opening round in the beginning of a great battle, the gunmen ceased fire.

SOLUTION: Plural

PROBLEM: The slow caresses that were intended to warm and stir his sleeping beauty increased to a frantic diagnostic check.

SOLUTION: Plural

PROBLEM: " But creatures like that never chased me before.

SOLUTION:
Plural