When one constructs any sentence with its subject placed far away from its verb, one must be careful to ensure that the subject and the verb must agree.
Just check the following sentence and see if anything is wrong with the sentence taken from a column in a popular national English daily.
Blaming your parents and showing them your foul moods and tantrums just shows your immaturity and imbecility.
'Blaming' and 'showing' are two verbal nouns (gerunds) which are joined by 'and'.
Since the rules of grammar require that subjects joined by 'and' be matched with plural verbs, the sentence in question should have been "Blaming your parents and showing them your foul moods and tantrums just show your immaturity and imbecility."
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Subject /verb disagreement
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