Just found your question. The line is from a poem (William Cowper's "Verses Supposed to be Written By Alexander Selkirk") , and is written with "poetic licence" --that is, with a syntax not typical of everyday speech.

Care must be taken while using nouns linked with and . If nouns are treated as separate things, plural verb must take place. Tea and cofee are the most popular drinks. __ Sometimes, some expressions joined by and have singular determiners, verbs

what are the old time singular nouns and old time plural nouns?

which one of the following words is a singular verb? Sees, Fly, Shirts , Walk sees fly walk A singular verb ends with 's'. So 'see s ' is a singular, whereas 'fly' and 'walk' are plural verbs.

which one of the following words is a singular verb? Sees, Fly, Shirts, Walk

What is a singular relative pronoun in your sentence and thus the third person singular verb form causes is correct. CB

Hİ CALİFJİM I'M A NON NATIVE SPEAKER AND I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT ANY+COUNTABLE SİNGULAR NOUNS IF YOU MİND ANSWER İT. WHAT İS THE DİFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE TWO SENTENCES. IS THERE ANY PARK NEAR HERE ?(IS THİS TRUE?) ARE THERE ANY

"Many a great ..." If this is correct, when do you use this? Many a is possible with a singular countable noun : "It's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one." - The House of the Rising Sun (trad.)

Hi. Borrowing yrh phrase "grammatical and lexical meaning" from the original poster's sentence. I would like to ask you whether you would put a singular verb or the pluaral verb for these. Grammatical and lexical meaning is/are

Hi cwtch, I hate to disagree with you because I've really enjoyed your posts so far, but with a compound subject joined by an "or" (instead of an "and") the verb agrees with the noun that comes closer to the verb.