(1) The committee has decided. (2) The committe have decided. (3) This committee sat late. [...] The agreement shown in (1) is often termed "syntactic", that in (2) "semantic". [...] Nevertheless we will retain the term "semantic agreement" for agreement which cannot be justified solely by syntactic features, and the term "syntactic agreement" for strict agreement as shown in (1) and (3).
- Corbett (2004), a pag.48-49