“Every one of us have a role to play” or “Every one of us has a role to play”? “A bunch of students were waiting outside” or “a bunch of students was waiting outside”? “It is I who am here” or “It is ...

It was the first week of French class. The teacher, a graduate student named -- what else? -- Marie, asked for a volunteer to come to the board to show the class how to conjugate the verb “to be.” My ...