The writer has made a mistake. "Are" is correct.There's calls either for his assassination or the assassination of his staff.
Why isn't "are" used here instead of "is"?
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It seems to be a very popular mistake. I hear there's followed by plural phrases a lot on television.The writer has made a mistake. "Are" is correct.
Hmmm...here in the US I can not recall this be the case on TV. I wonder if it's from non-natives?It seems to be a very popular mistake. I hear there's followed by plural phrases a lot on television.
Natives DO say the contracted "There's" all the time, before single and plural.
What we would not say is the uncontracted "there is" -- provided, of course, our speech was formed enough in out heads that we had a good sense of the rest of the sentence we were about to say.
Spontaneous speech is filled with ungrammatical utterances because the direction of what we are going to say can change a lot from beginning to end. I hardly think this is limited to English.