OK, I’ve given The Washington Post a month to correct this error, obsessively tracking this page (clearly, I have too much time on my hands). They still haven’t fixed it, so I reserve the right to be snarky about it.
Subject-verb agreement is one of those basic grammatical tenets of the English language that miraculously manages to slip through the cracks all too often. But usually when people mess up, it’s due to a compound subject, a collective noun or some phrase that comes between the subject and the verb.
I simply cannot figure out how this particular error happened (and how nobody at the Post has corrected it). Let this be a lesson that everyone, WaPo copy editors included, needs to triple check the things they write!
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