Agreement--Today's "Gotcha" Grammar Glitch

Saturday's The Birmingham News offered three clear examples of agreement confusion. First, in an article about the most costly home on the real estate market in the area, William Thornton commited the "There is/There are" error when he wrote:

There's five bedrooms, five full bathrooms and two half-baths...

If you begin a sentence with "There," the verb is supposed to agree with what comes after the verb. This sentence should read as follows:

There are five bedrooms, five full bathrooms and two half-baths....

Mr. Thornton also committed a singular/plural error, but I will give him the benefit of the doubt that this one might have been a typo when he wrote:

A team of Romanian craftsman worked on the exterior designs.

To make "craftsman" plural (which you need if you are speaking about a team of them), you must change the "a" to an "e." The fact that "craft" has an "s" on it isn't enough to make the entire word plural, so this sentence should read as follows:

A team of Romanian craftsmen worked on the exterior designs.

The third example appeared in a family tribute to the life of one of its members. One sentence read:

When you look at his life after service to the country, his greatests achievements was the integrity, the courage, the kindness and love he instilled in both of his sons.

This is a wonderful tribute, but the sentence should read as follows because "achievements" is plural:

When you look at his life after service to the country, his greatests achievements were the integrity, the courage, the kindness and love he instilled in both of his sons.