Question

The team of players...............practising for the championship.

• A. are
• B. is
• C. were
• D. have been

Answer 1

Answer:

B. is

"The team of players is practising for the championship."

Explanation: Even though "players" is plural, the subject of the sentence is "the team", which is singular. So, we use the singular verb "is" to maintain subject-verb agreement.