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by gmatdriller » Wed May 16, 2012 1:38 am
Please are the following sentences correct?
or rather when do we use a combination of plural and singular verbs as shown below.

(i) Hams and eggs is a high cholesterol breakfast
(i) "Hams and eggs ARE a high cholesterol breakfast"
(ii) "Hams and eggs ARE high cholesterol breakfast"
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by joshmachine » Wed May 16, 2012 1:22 pm
When two nouns connected by an 'and' act as a single unit, they are treated as singular subject and take singular verb.

Ham and eggs is a high cholesterol breakfast.
Hams and eggs are high cholesterol breakfasts.
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by hailmanyu » Wed May 16, 2012 10:47 pm
"and" is the only additive phrase which which changes the two singular subjects to plural. Hence and is followed by are. a can be used to specify the breakfast which is singular. My take would be on option B)
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by gmatdriller » Tue May 22, 2012 1:46 am
I accept that "hams and eggs" can be combined into a single breakfast meal.
In that case, one could refer to such menu as a singular breakfast meal.
Another example in this category:
Drinking and driving is a dangerous habit.

On the other hand, the second example treats the subjects as individual components:
Hams is a high cholesterol breakfast; also,
Eggs are high cholesterol breakfasts
As a result, we say, "hams and eggs are high cholesterol breakfasts.

My question:
Is it a convention on the GMAT to simply use PLURAL verb on instance of "AND" or do we
need to consider the context before making such decision as shown in the examples above?

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