Timeline for Does the 'verb form' always have to agree with the 'subject number'?
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| Jun 6, 2013 at 12:14 | vote | accept | Soulz | ||
| Jun 3, 2013 at 20:57 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Soulz: As Jay's examples show, when "all you need", or "all that matters" consists of two (or maybe even more) closely-related things, it's quite normal to treat them as singular. For example, All you need is a pencil and paper. | |
| Jun 3, 2013 at 19:55 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I know they're something of a special case, but 330,000 written instances of "there's a few" don't seem to have subject/verb agreement. | |
| Jun 3, 2013 at 18:15 | comment | added | Soulz | Thank you for the answer. But wrt the first example, aren't there two things that matter? His dream and the boy? So shouldn't it be 'were'? | |
| Jun 3, 2013 at 15:41 | history | answered | Jay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |