Eating and Drinking is not allowed?
Voice announcement from MTR (tube, underground railway, metro) inside the train compartment in Hong Kong: Eating and drinking is not allowed in the train compartment.
Some said, “It is not grammatically correct because ’and’ is used, and therefore ‘is’ should be changed to ‘are’”.
My question is:
What is the difference of these sentences?
Eating and drinking is not allowed in the train compartment.
Eating and drinking are not allowed in the train compartment.
I know that both sentences are grammatically correct but they have different connotation. Please advise!
Re: Eating and Drinking is not allowed?
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Originally Posted by Hong Kong Chinese
Voice announcement from MTR (tube, underground railway, metro) inside the train compartment in Hong Kong: Eating and drinking is not allowed in the train compartment.
Some said, “It is not grammatically correct because ’and’ is used, and therefore ‘is’ should be changed to ‘are’”.
My question is:
What is the difference between these sentences?
Eating and drinking is not allowed in the train compartment.
This is not allowed.
Eating and drinking are not allowed in the train compartment.
This and that are not allowed.
:D