compound subject

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A park and a lake runs along the loup Canal.How come a park and a lake is singular?Can anyone please provide some resources as to how to identify compound subject. Thank you.

Clive · Accepted Answer

It should be -
A park and a lake run along the loup Canal.

But how does a lake run along a canal?
Do you perhaps mean 'a park with a lake'?

We often say . . . run along beside . . .

Is Loup a name?

Anonymous · Answer

Examples (some ambiguous) of that from the Wikipedia:

"In the sentences below, the compound subjects are indicated in boldface.

Jack and Jill went up the hill.
Haley and I went to the park.
John and Jill are coming to visit.
John or Jill is coming to visit.
My sisters or my mother is/are coming to visit.
My mother or my sisters are(?) coming to visit.
John and I are going to sell our car.
John, Jim and Jane are going to sell their car.
You and John are going to sell your (you guys', your own car.
John and I are going to sell our cars. (ambiguous between whether we own two cars jointly, or each owns one car individually)
John or Jim is going to sell their car. (i.e. they jointly own the car, one of them will sell it)
John or Jim is going to sell his car. (i.e. either one of them will sell that one's own car, or one of them will sell someone else car)
John and I are going to sell our car. (i.e. we jointly own the car, one of us will sell it)
John and I are going to sell his? own car. (i.e. one of us will sell the car he owns, assuming that I am male)
Sylvia or I are/am/is? going to sell our car. (i.e. we jointly own the car, one of us will sell it)
Sylvia or I are/am/is? going to sell their(??) own car. (i.e. one of us will sell the car he or she owns, assuming that I am male and Sylvia is female)"

Yilin Wang · Answer

All the questions I have posted recently come from a book called The Ultimate Guide to SAT Grammar by Erica L. Meltzer.
It seems like there are some typos and errors in this book.
Thank you for your help!

4444mv · Answer

I can help with some examples of some subjects joined by and that are considered as one thing.
Brown bread and butter is usually eaten with smoked salmon.
Whisky and soda is his favourite drink.
The stitching and binding of books is done on this machine.

Clive · Answer

Fish and chips is my favourite meal.

4444mv · Answer

CliveFish and chips is my favourite meal.

Mine too

Yilin Wang · Answer

Anybody hungry?

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