&gt; Verb forms agree with the grammatical number of the subject, independent of the semantic number<p>That&#x27;s what I find interesting: that &quot;they&quot; isn&#x27;t actually being used grammatically as a singular pronoun that can be dropped in to replace &quot;he&quot; or &quot;she.&quot; The entire grammatical construct is exactly the same as if &quot;they&quot; was referring to multiple people. It&#x27;s the context that makes it clear that only a single person is being referred to.