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fatema_diu:
Can you answer the  following questions

Jobs: Subject- verb agreement

Example: Neither Rahim nor his friend's smoke.

               Neither Rahim's friend nor Rahim smokes.


1. Either Rahim's friends or Rahim himself ___ going there.(is/are)

2. Rahim or his friends________ going there.(is/are)

3. Rahim's friends and Rahim _____ not smoke.(do/does)

ashiqbest012:
Answer of the 1st question is "IS"
2nd "ARE'
2rd "DO"

fatema_diu:
YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS VERY WELL!

The rules are:

1. If the subjects are singular and connected by an are connected by the words OR, NOR, NIETHER/NOR, EITHER/OR, NOT ONLY BUT ALSO  the verb is singular.
BUT
2. If one  subject is plural and one is singular ,you use the verb form of the subject nearest the verb.         

Question:Do /Does your sisters or girlfriends want/ wants any pizza?


There is a good website for learning grammer named:
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramtoc.html

ashiqbest012:
Do your sisters or girlfriends want any pizza?

Thank you madam. Please continue this section. Specially, you added some rules. We are benefited for this section. I asked two of my friends to  solve it. They answered me wrong. Specially, they will get the benefit from this post.

Mostakima Yesmin:
Yeahh!!!....Obviously it's a good process to know grammatical rules. Most of the people are so weak in English grammar. If you'll continue your process, I think we all are benefited through this system.

Carry on....

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