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To: Lion Den Dan
"was" patrolling should be "were" patrolling. "were" is of course use with the plural "agents."

Agents is part of a prepositional phrase. Group is singular, therefore "was" is correct.
15 posted on 09/03/2015 12:12:45 PM PDT by Seven_0 (You cannot fool all of the people, ever!)
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To: Seven_0
Agents is part of a prepositional phrase. Group is singular, therefore "was" is correct. I satand corrected on that but any way you parse it, it was not "agent's."
16 posted on 09/03/2015 1:00:07 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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