“Every town and city has areas like this.” (source)
When I first came across this clause, I thought it might have wrong verb form of has instead of have. Now I can understand why there is has. But it gives me some other questions. Can a clause, ‘Every town or city has areas like this’, be made under any circumstance? If it’s possible, is the verb form, has, still right?
Best Answer
Your example:
would explicitly read:
The subject – verb agreement is correct.
Now, let’s consider the general case in which you replaced the conjoining conjunction and with the disjunctive conjunction or.
The pattern would be:
In this case a correct subject – verb agreement is given by the form of A and B, whether they are singular or plural. More can be read here