Identify the grammatically incorrect portion of the sentence: 'I hope our varsity win the basketball championship because the players are working so hard'.

Identify the grammatically incorrect portion of the sentence: 'I hope our varsity win the basketball championship because the players are working so hard'.

• A. I hope our varsity win
• B. the basketball championship
• C. because the players are
• D. working so hard.

Answer: (A)

Subject-verb agreement in clauses after verbs of emotion like “hope” requires the verb to match the subject of the following clause. Here, the subject is “our varsity,” which is singular, so the verb should be the singular form “wins.” Using “win” creates a mismatch with the singular subject. The rest of the sentence is fine: the basketball championship is the object of the verb, and the clause “because the players are working so hard” correctly uses a plural subject with the present continuous tense. The correct version is: I hope our varsity wins the basketball championship because the players are working so hard.

Subject-verb agreement in clauses after verbs of emotion like “hope” requires the verb to match the subject of the following clause. Here, the subject is “our varsity,” which is singular, so the verb should be the singular form “wins.” Using “win” creates a mismatch with the singular subject. The rest of the sentence is fine: the basketball championship is the object of the verb, and the clause “because the players are working so hard” correctly uses a plural subject with the present continuous tense. The correct version is: I hope our varsity wins the basketball championship because the players are working so hard.