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stephengillie on June 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to...

Can the title be corrected? It has a plural noun leading into a singular verb.

Unless we're supposed to parse "slew of startups" as singular...

rosser on June 19, 2016 [–]

> Unless we're supposed to parse "slew of startups" as singular...

Yes, that's how that works, grammatically. The noun in that sentence is the slew, which, in this instance, happens to be of startups.

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