The rules of the agreement do not apply to has-haves when used as a second ancillary contract in a couple. 2. Subsidiary sentences between the subject and the verb shall have no influence on their concordance. He`s one of those guys who never cheated on exams. [Comment: `These guys`, not `him`, is the appropriate topic here.] 10. The only time the object of the preposition decides which forms are plural or singulate is when subjects of nouns and pronouns such as “some”, “mi”, “none”, “plus” or “all” are followed by a prepositional sentence. Then, the object of the preposition determines the form of the verb. They do NOT apply to other helping verbs as can, could, should, should, can, could, could, would, would, should. RULE5: Topics related by “and” are plural.
Topics related by “or” or “Nor” accept a verb that corresponds to the last topic. For example, Bob and George leave. Neither Bob nor George leave. 16. If two infinitives are separated by “and”, they take the plural form of the verb. Note: In this example, the subject of the sentence is the pair; That is why the verb must correspond to this. (Because scissors are the subject of the preposition, scissors do not affect the number of verbs.) A composite subject consisting of two or more nouns, connected by “and”, requires a plural verblage. 9. If the subjects are the two singular and are connected by the words “or”, “ni”, ni”, “soit” or “not only/but also”, the verb is singular. Example: the quality of the apples was not good. In it, the theme is the “quality of apples” and the verb is “were”.
As the theme “the quality of apples” is singular, instead of “were”, the singular “was” should have been used. So the right sentence is this: the quality of the apples was not good. Some names like news, physics, statistics, economics, gymnastics, aerobics, measles, mumps, and headquarters, which end in “s,” seem plural, but they are actually singular, and therefore they adopt singulars. In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in an opposite way: in the first example, a message of desire is expressed, not a fact; This is why the were, which we usually consider a plural verblage, is used with the singular. (Technically, this is the singular subject of the game of objects in the subjunctive atmosphere: it was Friday.) Normally, his upbringing would seem terrible to us. However, in the second example of expressing a question, the conjunctive atmosphere is correct. Note: The subjunctive mind loses ground in spoken English, but should still be used in formal speech and writing.