In another thread, @Ereshkigalangcleg wrote: "You don't have to believe in what they or your DH believes", and then posted a correction: "Sorry, what they or your DH believe".
The first sentence looks fine to me. Is the correction needed? I don't know if there's an established rule or consensus, but my intuition, where a plural noun or pronoun conjoined with 'or' to a singular noun or pronoun is the subject of verb, is to make the verb agree with the noun closest to it. For example, I'd say: "I don't believe what your husband or your friends say", but "I don't believe what your friends or your husband says".
Am I wrong?
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Conjunctive noun phrase/verb agreement
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hallouminatus · 07/02/2021 17:31
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