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Originally Posted by Kyuusai
Any time two subjects are connected by "and", the plural form of the verb is used, making it "The idiot and genius eat an apple."
The same would be true even if you specify that they each individually did it: "The idiot and the genius each eat an apple."
If the subjects are connected with "or", though, the singular form is used:
"The idiot or the genius eats an apple."
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handou...slsubverb.html
For reference.
For the record... English is my native language and it still ticks me off because of things like this!! |
Lol yea... there are too many different cases and exceptions and all that.
Anyway, thank you very much for the answer, I was getting stucked while making this
post. It's on the 2nd "paragraph" (assuming that it can even be called a paragraph, lol
).
As you can see, I used it wrong since I was assuming that maybe this particular case was designed to be comprehensible even without context. (i.e. no need to read the rest to understand that I was talking about one person)