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    Quote Originally Posted by VaughnP View Post
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    Forget about the sentence as a whole. The only thing that matters is the modifying clause "that everyone IS posting about". In that clause, 'everyone' is the subject. 'Everyone' is a singular pronoun. It gets IS, not ARE.

    Answer is 100% A.
    This is oversimplification.
    No, you are overcomplicating things. It actually IS simple. The verb in a clause must match its subject. No more, no less.

    Who is posting? Everyone. By rule (look it up if you like) everyone is treated as a singular pronoun. "is" is the verb, since it is singular.

    The gif things are fun. Things =subject, gif is a modifier or part of the subject. Things ARE fun.
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