Question

Which sentence has a subject-verb agreement error? A) The lead soprano and all the altos want to have a "Girls Only" choir show. B) She and her friends do not want the boys to bring their cousins to the party. C) Happiness is not really a state of being, but a momentary, flickering feeling. D) Bruce, Lee, and the other men on the team wants to get a new coach for the fall.

Answer 1

The sentence that has a subject-verb agreement error is the final one - D. Bruce, Lee, and the other men on the team wants to get a new coach for the fall.
The error can be found in the verb wants here - it is a mistake because there is more than one subject in the sentence (Bruce, Lee, and the other men), which means that the verb also has to be plural. The correct option would be want, not wants.