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Tritcjj Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Here is or Here are question

I'm second guessing a sentence i just wrote....

"Here is my resume and cover letters."

Should it be "Here are my resume and cover letters."? Why does this sound funny to me? What is the verb agreement with a conjunction rule?
  

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Hello, tritcjj—and welcome to English Forums. Grammar tells us it should be 'are', of course, because the subject ('my resume and cover letters') is compound; 'here' is just an adverb. Actually, though, people naturally use both.

— Mister Micawber

  • Hello, tritcjj—and welcome to English Forums.
  • Grammar tells us it should be 'are', of course, because the subject ('my resume and cover letters') is compound; 'here' is just an adverb.
  • Actually, though, people naturally use both.
  • , thinking of one item at a time: 'is') or already has a mental image of the several documents she is going to mention ('are').
  • When the subject is in the usual position, however, it makes it more difficult to rationalize using the singular.
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Hello, tritcjj—and welcome to English Forums.

Grammar tells us it should be 'are', of course, because the subject ('my resume and cover letters') is compound; 'here' is just an adverb.

Actually, though, people naturally use both. Some people use one and some the other: it depends upon whether they are thinking of a single package of documents ('is') or the individual ones ('are'
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