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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

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Can the verb be in singular here?

There is (not are) a cat and a dog on each end of the log.
  

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It sounds perfect to me! It simply leaves out an unnecessary repitition. There is a cat and (there is) a dog on each end of the log.

— CalifJim

  • It sounds perfect to me!
  • It simply leaves out an unnecessary repitition.
  • There is a cat and (there is) a dog on each end of the log.
  • ) CJ
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It sounds perfect to me! It simply leaves out an unnecessary repitition.

There is a cat and (there is) a dog on each end of the log.

(I assume you know that two cats and two dogs are on the log according to your sentence!)

CJ
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Thank you.

Now you have mentioned it, how would you say if I want to say there is a cat or dog on each end of the log and not two them in different combinations?

There is a cat or dog on each end of the log?
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Not sure if you mean this:

There is a cat on one end of the log and a dog on the other.

or with even more accent:

There is just a cat on one end of the log and just a dog on the other.
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