<p>Green eggs and ham is a good meal.
Green eggs and ham are a good meal.</p>
<p>for blah blabh blabh and blah blah blah is it singular or plural</p>
<p>i think its singular so
green eggs and ham is</p>
<p>correct.?????????????????????????/</p>
<p>but then it says compound subjects can be plural
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<p>Behind the building was an alley.</p>
<p>Behind the building were an alley and a vacant lot.</p>
<p>Normally “and” makes things plural. But if your intent is to group green eggs and hams as one unit say, as breakfast, then singular will be okay. This normally is an exception and you need context to answer correctly.</p>
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<p>The fact that “meal” is singular indicates that the verb must be singular as well. </p>
<p>Compound nouns can be singular or plural, but when there is a predicate nominative (in this case, “meal”), the verb has to agree in number with that.</p>
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<p>I’m not sure what the question here is, but those are both correct; it’s just inverted verb construction (i.e., the subjects come after the verb).</p>
<p>silverturtle’s right, they’re both correct. Hope you’re not using a crummy book, lol.</p>
<p>what a coincident, I happened to read your "Green eggs and ham is a good meal.
" yesterday on Barrons. (Not sure if what it say is 100% correct) It says that it should be singular because the coumpound subject refers to one thing. </p>
<p>It perplexed me for a while too, I just ignored it though.</p>