Are you going to use the singular or the plural when you meet a fraction There a quarter of a pound of tobacco in the tin

Are you going to use the singular or the plural when you meet a fraction There a quarter of a pound of tobacco in the tin

If the head word of a noun phrase is fraction or percentage + of + noun, the singular and plural forms of the predicate verb depend on the singular and plural forms of the noun or pronoun after of
In the question, tobacco is singular, so use is

On the singular and plural of there be
Come across such a sentence
There __ going to be 2 football matches tomorrow evening.
Should I choose is or are?
According to the deep grammatical explanation of business press, most people in spoken English are used to using is instead of strictly changing the singular and plural of the actual subject, So, should the be verb be only considered as an auxiliary verb to express a grammatical structure, and the following 2 football matches tomorrow morning be considered as an event and a subject with singular meaning?

We agree to use is and it as an auxiliary verb to express a grammatical structure, and regard the following 2 football matches tomorrow morning as an event and a subject with singular meaning

What is the sentence pattern "there be" in the general future tense?
Finish it tonight!

There be general future singular: there will be... Plural: there will be... Plural: there have been... Plural: th