Monday, January 2, 2012

grammaticality - Subject-Verb Agreement regarding two singular subjects



I overheard a conversation today regarding a random topic and one of them said:






"There is one man and there is one PC in this picture ."





The other person tried to correct her friend by saying:





"There is one man and one PC in this picture."






Which of the two sentences is actually correct? Thank you!


Answer



They are both correct. But unless you want to be very precise, it is not necessary to repeat the there is section, so the second example is more readable.


No comments:

Post a Comment