Once again, in an adaptation from Paul Brians’ book Common Errors in English Usage (to which he generously offers free access at his Washington State University web page), here is a worksheet on the use of the noun majority. This noun, one of a few of its type I imagine, governs both the use of the singular and plural verb. And that is what Professor Brians seeks to clarify in this passage.
Students are called upon to evaluate five teacher-authored sentences, then compose fives sentences of their own with majority used properly.
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