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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

subject/verb agreement

If you had the unlikely sentence: "Each pen and each tablet on the table (are? is?) mine," which is the correct verb?
  

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Anonymous Each pen and each tablet on the table (are? ) mine, It is a compound subject, just like a knife and a fork are necessary to eat steak.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous Each pen and each tablet on the table (are?
  • ) mine, It is a compound subject, just like a knife and a fork are necessary to eat steak.
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AnonymousEach pen and each tablet on the table (are? is?) mine,
It is a compound subject, just like a knife and a fork are necessary to eat steak.
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In my opinion, you have two items (a pen and a tablet) so use "are" .

Ps. I'm not a teacher. I'm a student.
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AnonymousEach pen and each tablet on the table (are? is?) mine,
"It is a compound subject, just like a knife and a fork are necessary to eat steak"
"In my opinion, you have two items (a pen and a tablet) so use "are" ."

"are" doesn't sound right to me, and logica
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canadian45 I don't think that having objects with two diferent names makes it a compound subject…
Each pen and each tablet on the table is mine.

We still have two subjects joined by a coordinator, forming a compound subject. However, I would consider this an exception.
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Aspara GusEach pen and each tablet on the table is mine. Thanks for your post.
We still have two subjects joined by a coordinator, forming a compound subject. I still don't think that's a (legitimate) compound subject.
The COCA has 16 citations for each [noun] and each [noun] [singular verb] a
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