English Grammar: Compound Subjects & Verb Agreement

TRANSCRIPT Hi. Welcome to engVid. I&Adam. In today&video we&going to look at the "Compound Subject". So this is a grammar lesson, and it doesn&matter if you&a beginner or advanced, it&very important to understand this because it&very easy to make mistakes, especially in writing. So, we&going to start by looking at the subject. What is a subject? Just to refresh our memories. The subject is the thing in the sentence or in the clause that is going to do the action or is going to be in the situation of the "be" verb, if it¬ an action verb. Right? So... And we always have to make sure that our subject and our verb agree. They must agree, especially in terms of number. If you have a singular subject, you must have a singular verb. Right? So let&look at this example: "The doctor is off this week." Right? So when we&talking about the doctor, there&one doctor, his or her situation is that he or she is off this week. They&on vacation. Right? So we have a singular verb. Now, we&going to look at compounds in terms of taking two pieces and making one subject out of this... Out of the two individual pieces. We&going to look at "and" and we&going to look at "or", "either", "or", "neither", "nor". Okay? But we&going to look at "or" after, we&going to start with "and". First thing you need to remember about "and", it works like a plus sign. One plus one equals two. So, when you take two individual subjects and you join them together, you&creating a two-or-more situation, or a...