Timeline for Is it: My apples and orange are/is wrong?
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| Jun 11, 2018 at 8:14 | comment | added | lly | @Kundor He may have just mistook the Spanish part of the book for the English but what this sounds like is a misunderstanding of the way English often treats the conjunction or: many teachers advise having the verb agree with the second of the two items. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 19:37 | comment | added | Lambie | @Andrew, Spanish and English are completely different in this regard. I can see no case when you could have: My apples and orange (in a painting for examples) can be anything other than plural. That is: are wrong. | |
| Jan 8, 2015 at 20:44 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Feb 11, 2013 at 17:28 | comment | added | Nick Matteo | No way. You're recommending "My orange and apples is wrong"? Even if both "conjuncts" are singular, you should use "are": "My apple and orange are wrong." | |
| S Dec 12, 2012 at 4:51 | review | Late answers | |||
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| S Dec 12, 2012 at 4:51 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 12, 2012 at 4:35 | history | answered | Andrew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |