User talk:Preader

The example useage (below) of the word 'number' cunningly avoids the question of whether the noun 'number' is singular or plural.


 * 1) Quantity.

Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time

If we had instead: "A number of errors were found in the text." or "A number of errors was found in the text." the matter would be clearer. I think the latter looks correct, but I don't know anyone who says "A number...was...". Over to somebody with some authority in grammar.