I wanted "my daughter's tribe of misfits cheer." It would chime nicely with "I never miss" in the next line. But I wasn't sure that giving the singular but collective noun "tribe" the plural verb "cheer" (as Brits do, instead of the singular verb "cheers") works in American English, or if it will just look like the annoyingly common error of matching the verb number to the plural object of the preposition immediately before it ("misfits"), instead of matching the verb number to the actual subject ("tribe").
Maybe I'm overthinking that.
Last edited by Julie Steiner; 02-23-2024 at 11:14 AM.
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