Thankfully, we don't have these problems in norwegian at all. Unlike most of the languages I know, we don't change the verbs depending on I/you/he-she-it/you/we/they, only for infinitive-presence-perfectum-imperfectum (which they were were called when I went to school, now they use preteritum and other words which I don't remember). It makes life much easier for us, but also means that we have to learn these things thoroughly and more technically before we learn other languages, than you have to. You mostly learn it naturally when you grow up, I would guess?

When I went to school, I found grammar very interesting, and I think that I am pretty good at it. (blush)

>Actually, The Beatles were/was a Beat Group originally! :-)
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>This is a sticky one in English:
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>Do we say "A great number of men don't do housework" or "A great number of men doesn't do housework"?
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>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.
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>"A flock of geese were/was on the grass"?
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>I think these collective nouns, whether correctly or not, tend to take the plural in verbs.
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>"The Jury was/were hung over the Jacko result" (well they should have been!) :-)
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>(yeah, I know the past tense, in this case, is "hanged"!)