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• Everyone in the telecom focus group (has/have) experienced problems with cell phones • Your friendship over the years and your support (has/have) meant a great deal to us. • Hamilton Family Centre, a shelter for teenage runaways in San Francisco, (offers/offer) a wide variety of services. • The main source of income for Trinidad (is/are) oil and pitch. • The chances of your being promoted (is/are) excellent. • There (was/were) a Pokémon card stuck to the refrigerator. • Neither the professor nor his assistants (was/were) able to solve the mystery of the eerie glow in the laboratory. • Many hours at the driving range (has/have) led us to design golf balls with GPS locators in them. • Discovered in the soil of our city garden (was/were) a button dating from the Civil War dating from the turn of the century. • Every year, during the midsummer festival, the smoke of village bonfires (fills/fill) the sky.

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Appendix:Glossary of collective nouns by subject

Subject Collective term

dancers, male A flight of dancers

dancers, female A float of dancers

dancers A gambol, or troupe of dancers

daubers A squat of daubers

Animal Collective Nouns

Animal Group Name

Larks Exaltation, Ascension

Leopards Leap

Lice Flock

Lions Pride, Sault, Troop