{"id":262,"date":"2019-08-19T06:53:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2019-08-19T06:53:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:53:25","slug":"subject-verb-agreement-10-minute-english-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/19\/subject-verb-agreement-10-minute-english-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Subject-Verb Agreement &#8211; 10 Minute English Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Agreement of the verb with the\nsubject is a basic understanding while making any sentence. Students generally\nknow this basic rule of grammar, but in this chapter, I am going to discuss one\nexception, which is worthwhile to learn it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a)&nbsp; If two subjects combined denotes one idea, we\nuse the verb which may be the Singular; as,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Thrill and safety<\/strong> <em>goes<\/em> hand in hand with\nthis car.<\/li><li><strong>The long and the short of the matter<\/strong> <em>is<\/em> this\nproposal may not have any positive fruition.<\/li><li><strong>Slow and steady<\/strong> <em>wins<\/em> the race. That\u2019s\nwhat we were taught by the moral story of the hare and the tortoise.<\/li><li><strong>Early to bed and early to rise<\/strong> <em>makes<\/em> a man\nhealthy, wealthy and wise.<\/li><li><strong>The horse and carriage<\/strong> <em>is<\/em> at the door now.<\/li><li><strong>Bread and butter<\/strong> <em>is<\/em> wholesome. <strong>Bread\nand butter<\/strong> <em>is<\/em> all she takes for breakfast.<\/li><li>Subhas Chandra Bose, <strong>the great nationalist and\nleader<\/strong>, <em>is<\/em> no more with us.<\/li><li><strong>Love and hate<\/strong> <em>is<\/em> a part of human\nbehavior. <\/li><li><strong>Rice and curry<\/strong> <em>is<\/em> my favorite dish\nfor sure.<\/li><li><strong>The law and order<\/strong> in town <em>is<\/em> under\ncontrol now.<\/li><li>Stay away from this parliamentarian. His <strong>power and\ninfluence<\/strong> <em>is<\/em> on the rise.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>b)&nbsp; In some cases, two nouns are joined by\nwords\/phrases, such as with, besides, as well as, together with, no less than.\nIt also expresses one idea; as,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Gold, as well as silver,<\/strong> <em>is<\/em> a precious metal.<\/li><li><strong>The rich as well as the poor<\/strong> <em>takes <\/em>part in this exercise.<\/li><li>No one, <strong>besides <\/strong>him, <em>knows<\/em> how to deal with such situations.<\/li><li>Mark my words; your father, <strong>not you<\/strong><em>, has created<\/em> this gigantic empire of wealth. <\/li><li>Sheila, <strong>together with other friends of mine<\/strong>, <em>is<\/em> working on this project at the moment. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agreement of the verb with the subject is a basic understanding while making any sentence. Students generally know this basic rule of grammar, but in this chapter, I am going to discuss one exception, which is worthwhile to learn it. a)&nbsp; If two subjects combined denotes one idea, we use the verb which may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,58,78,55,61,60,63,75,74,62,56,71,76,67,72,73,59,1,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}