Let's look at the sentence I corrected: "Our force of grammar officers uses the latest in grammar-correcting technology…" The original version was "Our force of grammar officers use the latest in grammar-correcting technology…" This is a matter of subject-verb agreement. If the subject was "grammar officers," then yes, it would be correct. However, the collective noun "force" is the subject, with "of grammar officers" being a prepositional phrase describing "force." Since "force" is the subject, the verb should be in singular form, i.e., "uses."
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Let's look at the sentence I corrected: "Our force of grammar officers uses the latest in grammar-correcting technology…" The original version was "Our force of grammar officers use the latest in grammar-correcting technology…" This is a matter of subject-verb agreement. If the subject was "grammar officers," then yes, it would be correct. However, the collective noun "force" is the subject, with "of grammar officers" being a prepositional phrase describing "force." Since "force" is the subject, the verb should be in singular form, i.e., "uses."
Let's look at the sentence I corrected: "Our force of grammar officers uses the latest in grammar-correcting technology…" The original version was "Our force of grammar officers use the latest in grammar-correcting technology…" This is a matter of subject-verb agreement. If the subject was "grammar officers," then yes, it would be correct. However, the collective noun "force" is the subject, with "of grammar officers" being a prepositional phrase describing "force." Since "force" is the subject, the verb should be in singular form, i.e., "uses."
