query: Staff "are" or staff "is"
positive_passages.docid: 37539
positive_passages.text: Does "staff" take a plural verb?
negative_passages.docid: 120860
negative_passages.text: "There is" and "there's" used before a plural word
negative_passages.docid: 15180
negative_passages.text: Use of "would be" vs. "is"
negative_passages.docid: 92634
negative_passages.text: Those vs They vs That
negative_passages.docid: 43187
negative_passages.text: How does "each" change "are" to "is"?
negative_passages.docid: 141279
negative_passages.text: Is there a difference between  and ?
negative_passages.docid: 76513
negative_passages.text: Correct usage of ‘on’, ‘at’ and ‘in’
negative_passages.docid: 131510
negative_passages.text: "Was" and "were", which is correct in this context? Can a mood be established in a terminating clause?
negative_passages.docid: 86906
negative_passages.text: Which is correct: "What is" or "What are"
negative_passages.docid: 88108
negative_passages.text: Can we use "there is" for plural nouns?
negative_passages.docid: 147007
negative_passages.text: How should I pluralise “as is”?
negative_passages.docid: 7294
negative_passages.text: There's vs There are
negative_passages.docid: 87312
negative_passages.text: Using 'is' or 'was' when something is still true
negative_passages.docid: 72588
negative_passages.text: Correct usage of "persons" (vs. "people")
negative_passages.docid: 75906
negative_passages.text: “There’s” or “There are”?
negative_passages.docid: 85224
negative_passages.text: (am/are/is) being married
negative_passages.docid: 25213
negative_passages.text: Analysing the "kind(s) of problem(s) are [ones]/[to be]" construction