What's the difference between "exist" and "exists" in this sentence?
Throughout the United States a wide variety of wetlands exist, ranging from permafrost wetlands in Alaska to tropical rain forests in Hawaii
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Someone asked a similar question recently regarding "a lot of them are..."
Here is a link:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44942/a-variety-of-x-is-vs-a-variety-of-x-are
"Both sentences are grammatical."
You could call it something of an anomaly of English grammar (but then, what isn't? :)).
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plural = exist
singular = exists
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exists = singular unit of meaning, either one person or one group of things (eg this disease only exists in Africa)
exist = plural unit, either people or things eg 'large groups of people exist in harmony' or 'a wide variety of wetlands exist'
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