The following sentence contains an error with subject-verb agreement. Select the incorrect verb.

There is several baseball franchises, including the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals, that date back to the 1870s and 1880s

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Responses

Is
Is

Including
Including

Several
Several

Date
Date

1 answer

The incorrect verb in the sentence is "is." The correct form should be "are" to agree with the plural subject "several baseball franchises." So the correct answer is:

Is