The Alfa magazine, Friends & Family, features an interesting artist in its Winter 2008 issue. Todd Alan "paints" fantastic scenes of the Gulf Shores area with nothing but crayons, and the results are breathtaking.
Unfortunately, the magazine did not proofread carefully enough to catch a glaring subject/verb agreement problem in the first paragraph of the story.
And while the 44-year-old Minnesota native now calls Gulf Shores his home, his childhood love of art and crayons are what makes his creations so unusual and in such high demand.
The main subject of this sentence is LOVE, which is singular. "Of art and crayons" is a prepositional phrase that does not affect the relationship between LOVE and the verb, which should be IS.
The author seems to have had at least an inkling of this problem because she uses MAKES for the second verb. This sentence should read as follows:
And while the 44-year-old Minnesota native now calls Gulf Shores his home, his childhood love of art and crayons is what makes his creations so unusual and in such high demand.
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