Recently I came across this sentence in an article in the Guardian newspaper, by one of my favourite journalists :
A wide range of activists, both African and European, is furious about the New Alliance
This didn’t sound quite right to me; I’m pretty sure I would have written are furious, not is furious, and if you take away the extra bit in the middle and substitute people for activists, it sounds even weirder:
A wide range of people is furious ….
So which is "correct" - is or are, or perhaps either? I've already posted about a couple of similar expressions, a number of and a succession of, so I decided to investigate.
