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Monday, May 30, 2011

Subject-Verb Agreement: RULE 5

When two ore more nouns or pronouns in the singular are connected by or or nor, either...or, neither....nor they take a singular verb; as-
Neither Nick nor his sister is to blame.
Either the dog or the cat has been killed.
Posted by Ashwin Kandel at 10:01 AM
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      • Subject-Verb Agreement: RULE 1
      • One-word Substitution: Part 11
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      • Subject Verb Agreement
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      • Beautiful Vs Handsome
      • One-word Substitution: Part 4
      • One-word Substitution: Part 3
      • One-word Substitution: Part 2
      • One-word Substitution: Part 1
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