Part 18 (1/2)

4 When the verb applies separately to several subjects, each in the singular, the verb should be singular; as, _Each book and each paper WAS in its place, No help and no hope IS found for him, Either one or the other IS he, Neither one nor the other IS he_

5 When the verb applies separately to several subjects, soree with the subject nearest to it; as, _Neither the boy, nor his sisters DESERVE praise, Neither the sisters nor the boy DESERVES praise_

6 When a verb separates its subjects, it should agree with the first; as, _The leader WAS slain and all his men, The men WERE slain, and also the leader_

EXERCISE 42

_Choose the proper for sentences:_

1 Hard and soft coal _is are_ used

2 The boy and the girl _have has_ coo

4 Neither Jao

5 Henry, and not his sister, _is are_ sure to be invited

6 The children and their father _ere_ on the train

7 Each man and each woman _ere_ present

8 Either Tennyson or Wordsworth _ere_ the author of that poem

9 Either the man or his children _ere_ lost

10 Either the children or their father _ere_ lost

11 Bread and al but wholesome fare

12 The teacher _ere_ cut off by the fire, and also her pupils

13 The pupils _ere_ cut off by the fire, and also the teacher

14 Dogs and cats _is are_ useless anihters nor their mother _is are_ at home

16 Either the soldier or his officers _is are_ mistaken

17 The cat and all her kittens _ere_ at the door

18 Tennyson, not Wordsworth, _as_ the author

19 Each of the trustees _has have_ a vote

20 Our success or our failure _is are_ due solely to ourselves

21 Neither sincerity nor cordiality _characterize characterizes_ him

22 Everyone of these chairs _is are_ s_ new questions

24 The car and all its passengers _ere_ blown up

25 The ambition and activity of the man _has have_ been the _cause causes_ of his success

26 Old and new hay _is are_ equally good for horses

27 Matthew or Paul _are is_ responsible for that belief

28 A roup

29 The pupils and also the teacher _as_ embarrassed

30 The teacher and also the pupils _as_ e

32 Book after book _ere_ taken frohters _is are_ cohters or Aunt Mary _is are_ cohters, _is are_ cohters, but not Aunt Mary, _is are_ cohter _is are_ co

39 No preacher and no woman _is are_ allowed to enter