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Agreement of Subject and Verb - Lone Star College

Nouns such as gymnastics, tactics, trousers, scissors, athletics, tidings, acoustics, riches, and barracks are usually treated as plural. His tactics are sneaky. The scissors are on the table. The trousers are hanging in the closet. Plural nouns denoting a mass, a quantity, or a number require a singular verb when the subject is regarded as a unit.