AGREEMENT OF ADJECTIVES WITH NOUNS.
These sort, all manner of, etc.
427. The statement that adjectives agree with their nouns in number is restricted to the words this and that (with these and those), as these are the only adjectives that have separate forms for singular and plural; and it is only in one set of expressions that the concord seems to be violated,—in such as "these sort of books," "those kind of trees," "all manner of men;" the nouns being singular, the adjectives plural. These expressions are all but universal in spoken English, and may be found not infrequently in literary English; for example,—
These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
Harbor more craft, etc.
—Shakespeare
All these sort of things.—Sheridan.
I hoped we had done with those sort of things.—Muloch.
You have been so used to those sort of impertinences.Sydney Smith.
Whitefield or Wesley, or some other such great man as a bishop, or those sort of people.—Fielding.
I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes.—Austen.
There are women as well as men who can thoroughly enjoy those sort of romantic spots.—Saturday Review, London.