B6: Subject-Verb Agreement, Subject Follows the Verb

B6: Subject-Verb Agreement, Subject Follows the Verb: In some cases, the subject of the sentence comes after the verb, but the subject and verb still need to agree.  See Writing for Success Section 2.2 p. 61 or RULE 9 at the following:https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/grammarpunct/subjectverb/

Questions:

 Are birds really the descendants of dinosaurs?

(Birds are really the descendants of dinosaurs.)

 “There is/There are” sentences:

 There is an awful smell in this basement.

(An awful smell is in this basement.)

 There are fifteen old cannonballs in the courtyard.

(Fifteen cannonballs are in the courtyard)