Timeline for verb agreement with "a laptop and some books"
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| Jan 15, 2019 at 14:31 | vote | accept | Zeeshan Ali | ||
| Jan 15, 2019 at 13:08 | comment | added | Zeeshan Ali | I respect the opinion, be that of yours or MW's; I just simply don't get it! :( | |
| Jan 15, 2019 at 12:36 | comment | added | BillJ | That's MW's opinion, not mine. | |
| Jan 15, 2019 at 12:29 | comment | added | Zeeshan Ali | But as [Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage] cautions, 'Proximity agreement may pass in speech and other forms of unplanned discourse; in print it will be considered an error.'" (Amy Einsohn, The Copyeditor's Handbook. Univ. of California Press, 2006) | |
| Jan 15, 2019 at 12:08 | comment | added | BillJ | This may help: link | |
| Jan 15, 2019 at 11:45 | comment | added | Zeeshan Ali | Refer such a usage-manual, plz! That'd help me more to look into it ^^ | |
| Jan 15, 2019 at 11:43 | comment | added | BillJ | Usage manuals generally invoke the principle of proximity, saying that the verb should agree with the nearest coordinate. Which would mean that in your example the verb should be the singular "is". | |
| Jan 15, 2019 at 8:31 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 15, 2019 at 8:19 | history | asked | Zeeshan Ali | CC BY-SA 4.0 |