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Which sentence has a subject-verb agreement error?

A) Some of the collected speeches of Mr. Max Jones were published in one volume by his friends.
B) Neither the coach nor his players knows whether or not this season will end in a championship ring or not.
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C) The doctors who mistakenly prescribed asthma medicine instead of antibiotics were successfully sued by all the victims.
D) The many reasons for why Janice Shuster has been so successful are obvious to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of her life story.

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Answer:B)

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B) Neither the coach nor his players knows whether or not this season will end in a championship ring or not.

This sentence is incorrect. The subject of the sentence is neither the coach nor his players. The verb that doesn't agree is knows. Knows agrees with a singular subject. The subject is plural. When the coordinating conjunction neither nor is used, the verb must agree with the option closest to the verb - in this case players. Players is a plural subject so knows should be know.
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