Wednesday, July 2, 2014

grammatical number - uncountable noun + and + uncountable noun

Which sounds better?




  • There is water and butter in my fridge.


  • There are water and butter in my fridge.




I think it should be: is.



But what if we said:





  • How much flour and butter is needed to make a pizza?


  • How much flour and butter are needed to make a pizza?




In that case, I think the plural verb: are, is the correct choice, which means (I think) there is a contradiction between both sentences.

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