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<li>In 1982, the Go-Go’s (became the first all-woman band to have)a number one album, garnering an enduring victory for women in popular music.</li>
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<p>Correct answer is A, as is. </p>
<p>Why is this? isn’t “the go-go’s” singular? and if it says first all-woman band, wouldn’t that require the verb, had?</p>
<p>“The Go-Go’s” is the subject of the verb “became.” That is an appropriate verb in context, and it is in the proper form.</p>
<p>The following sentence is also grammatically correct: “In 1982, the Go-Go’s had a number one album and garnered an enduring victory for women in popular music.”</p>
<p>However, that sentence doesn’t mean the same thing as the original, and it requires too many changes.</p>
<p>I don’t see a different way that “had” could be used grammatically in the sentence you gave.</p>
<p>So you’re saying that “the go-go’s” is plural even though its just ONE band? and therefore requires all plural antecedents?</p>
<p>and would this apply to other bands as well like “the beatles were one of the most popular bands in the 1960s”</p>
<p>It isn’t saying the gogo’s have it is saying the gogo’s became…TO have… This too have is in an infinitive and isn’t the verb for the subject gogos</p>
<p>“became” is a past tense verb for both singular and plural subjects. “He became a man.” “They became men.” If you think about it you won’t come up with a “plural” form of the word. You don’t say It becames. It’s just became. So there is agreement in “the Go-Go’s became,” whether “Go-Go’s” is singular or not. (It is singular, at least in standard American English.) The infinitive “to have” is not distinguished by number, either. “He was the first musician to have a number one album.” “They were the first people to have number one albums.” It’s just…“to have.” You don’t say “to had.”</p>
<p>i seee… so the verb became agreed with the subject “go-gos”. But hypothetically, if i had a sentence like “the Go-gos” do w.e, is the"go-gos" singular or plural? same thing for “the beatles” or any band. They are one band, but their name is plural… which do you choose?</p>
<p>bump10char</p>
<p>There is no standard rule for that because the mechanism differs among different countries and so forth.</p>
<p>On the SAT, however, you have to use standard American English. So words like “committee,” “group,” and “team” are virtually always singular on the SAT. The committee is big. The group is loud. The team has won. But “the Beatles” is plural: The Beatles are perhaps the most popular band in music history. So I would say “Go-Go’s” is in fact plural in standard American English. The first sentence of the Wikipedia article for that band uses the plural verb (“Go-Go’s are…”)</p>
<p>Alright, thanks once again crazy… i think you’ve answered a record amount of my threads regarding writing… sigh i’m still stuck at getting 0-4 wrong…</p>