“A band of veteran militant green activists are fuelling a campaign to encourage thousands of children to skip school.” This was that the Daily Mail assured us on page 13 today. Which is dismaying.
Why? Because ‘a band’ is the singular subject of the sentence and it should be accompanied by the singular form of the verb, i.e. ‘is’ not ‘are’, which is a plural form.
Looks like the Mail team of Sophie Borland, Glen Keogh and Neil Sears didn’t spend all that much time in English classes themselves when they were at school.
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