Usage of singular / plural

[nq:1]Hi, what is right: "This email and any attachment is confidental" or: "This email and any attachment are confidental"?[/nq]
"is". The sense is "This e-mail, together with any attachment, is confidential."
Matti

[nq:2]Hi, what is right: "This email and any attachment is confidental" or: "This email and any attachment are confidental"?[/nq]
[nq:1]"is". The sense is "This e-mail, together with any attachment, is confidential."[/nq]
"Are".

[nq:2]"is". The sense is "This e-mail, together with any attachment, is confidential."[/nq]
[nq:1]"Are".[/nq]
I've just googled this, and your suggestion certainly has its supporters. It may even become supportable within fifty years.

Matti

[nq:1]what is right: "This email and any attachment is confidental" or: "This email and any attachment are confidental"?[/nq]
The second version. "This house and any attached property are included in the lease." "This girl and any unattached boy are welcome at the dance." You get the idea.

[nq:2]what is right: "This email and any attachment is confidental" or: "This email and any attachment are confidental"?[/nq]
[nq:1]The second version. "This house and any attached property are included in the lease." "This girl and any unattached boy are welcome at the dance." You get the idea.[/nq]
When the "and" implies an extension to the preceding item, the singular verb is usu

[nq:2]The second version. "This house and any attached property are ... boy are welcome at the dance." You get the idea.[/nq]
[nq:1]When the "and" implies an extension to the preceding item, the singular verb is usually used.[/nq]
So something like
This girl and her brothers is welcome at the dance.

or
This girl and any boy she brings is welcome at the dance.

[nq:1]what is right: "This email and any attachment is confidental" or: "This email and any attachment are confidental"?[/nq]
"Are".

Mike Nitabach

[nq:2]When the "and" implies an extension to the preceding item, the singular verb is usually used.[/nq]
[nq:1]So something like This girl and her brothers is welcome at the dance. or This girl and any boy she brings is welcome at the dance. ? The latter would seem to be a strict parallel.[/nq]
I think the greater length of the phrase following the 'and', and in particular the inclu

[nq:1]For me, to get a singular reading, I'd have to make the conjunction a parenthetical This email, and any attachment, ... is confidential. This email and any attachment is confidential. Even there, I'm not confident whether my reflex would be "is" or "are".[/nq]
I hear those examples as requiring a plural verb: to my ear, those parenthesizers commas, parentheses, dashes do nothing but dram

[nq:2]what is right: "This email and any attachment is confidental" or: "This email and any attachment are confidental"?[/nq]
[nq:1]"is". The sense is "This e-mail, together with any attachment, is confidential."[/nq]
Oy!
The sense is "This and that are confidential." None of that "together" stuff was mentioned.
By the way, the usual expression would use "attachments" to allow for