[Grammar] Majority of + is/are

[barnej0096]

Hi! I have a sentence in my essay: "The majority of agreements concluded nowadays are/is governed by standardized terms". Shall I use is or are in this case? I'm confused whether the verb refers more to "majority" (then is) or to the word "agreements" (then are).

 

[Matthew Wai]

'The majority was/were in favour of banning smoking.'── quoted from Oxford Learners' Dictionaries.
Having read the above, I think both singular and plural verbs are correct.

 

[kilroy65]

In cases when we have "some of/a lot of/a majority of/all of", the subject-verb agreement depends on the noun after "of". In your sentence, the noun is in the plural.

"The majority of agreements concluded nowadays are..."