Part 17 (1/2)

9 If he _be is_ there, ask him to pay the bill

10 If he _be is_ there, he , then all love of country is wrong

12 If it _rains rain_, I stay at school

13 Take care lest you _are be_ deceived by appearances

14 Would that I _ere_ a bird

15 If it _snos_, I can't co him to dinner

17 If your father _ere_ here, you would act differently

18 Though he _as_ king over all the earth I should despise him

19 If he _come comes_, he will find me at home

20 _Was were_ it necessary, I should juo driving

22 If o

23 If she _ere_ at home, I did not hear of it

24 If that _is be_ his h this _seem seems_ improbable, it is true

26 If a speech _is be_ praised by none but literary men, it is bad

27 If the father _pays pay_ the debt, he will be released

28 Though Mary _be is_ young, she is a writer of note

29 Unless he _takes take_ better care of his health, he will die

30 If he _be is_ honest, he has not shown it

31 If he _be is_ honest, he will insist on paying me

32 If he ever _tell tells_ the truth, he conceals the fact

61 AGREEMENT OF VERB WITH ITS SUBJECT THE VERB SHOULD AGREE WITH ITS SUBJECT IN PERSON AND NUMBER The ree in nuular subjects are used with plural verbs, and plural subjects with singular verbs These errors arise chiefly from a misapprehension of the true number of the subject

The s-forular forular, present indicative; as, _He runs, she goes, it ular forms of the auxiliaries _Am_ is used only with a subject in the first person, and is not a source of confusion The other auxiliaries have no singular forree in person seldom occurs, and so can cause little confusion

Exareement of verb and subject:

A barrel of clothes WAS shi+pped (not _were shi+pped_)

A man and a woman HAVE been here (not _has been here_)

Boxes ARE scarce (not _is scarce_)

When WERE the brothers here (not _as_)?

62 AGREEMENT OF SUBJECT AND VERB IN NUMBER The general rule to be borne in ard to number, is that IT IS THE MEANING AND NOT THE FORM OF THE SUBJECT THAT DETERMINES WHETHER TO USE THE SINGULAR OR THE PLURAL FORM OF THE VERB This rule also applies to the use of singular or plural pronouns

Many nouns plural in for; as, _politics, measles, news_, etc

Many, also, are treated as plurals, though in s, trousers_

So to the sense in which, they are used, either singular or plural in ; as, _co sentences are all correct: _The asse, The assembly are all total abstainers, The whole family is a famous one, The whole family are sick_

In the use of the adjective pronouns, _some, each_, etc, the noun is often o the wrong number of the verb _Each, either, neither, this, that_, and _one_, when used alone as subjects, require singular verbs