&gt; The interesting thing is that the singular usage of &quot;they&quot; doesn&#x27;t get used with singular verbs.<p>Verb forms agree with the <i>grammatical</i> number of the subject, independent of the semantic number; in English those <i>almost</i> always are the same, but aside from &quot;they&quot;, &quot;you&quot; (which is grammatically plural, even though its semantics are sometimes singular) is a case where they can diverge.