Actually, The Beatles were/was a Beat Group originally! :-)
This is a sticky one in English:
Do we say "A great number of men don't do housework" or "A great number of men doesn't do housework"?
The subject of the sentence is "a great number" ("a" notice, therefore singular), not "of men" (qualifying clause or some such), but the second sentence sounds silly.
"A flock of geese were/was on the grass"?
I think these collective nouns, whether correctly or not, tend to take the plural in verbs.
"The Jury was/were hung over the Jacko result" (well they should have been!) :-)
(yeah, I know the past tense, in this case, is "hanged"!)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
