My mum and dad say or says?

[Caprilla]

Hello everyone!

I teach English and often use Wordwall during my lessons. So yesterday working out the verb to say we saw this phrase: My mum and dad ... "Good morning!" and needed to choose between say or says. My student chose the first options, i.e. say. But that wasn't correct. Shouldn't we coordinate two subjects with a verb and get plural? Or do we have to look at the last subject only?

Rainbow English 3 unit 5 "say VS says"

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I can't attach the screenshot, it's getting too large. The phrase I'm talking about is the last.

 

[5jj]

You are right. 'Says' is not correct.

 

[emsr2d2]

Hello, everyone!

I teach English and often use Wordwall during my lessons.

So Yesterday, working out on the verb to "say", we saw this phrase: the sentence "My mum and dad ... "Good morning!" and needed to choose between "say" or and "says". My student chose the first options option, i.e. "say", but that wasn't correct.

Shouldn't we coordinate consider the two subjects with a verb and get and use a plural verb no full stop here or do we have to look at the last subject only?

Please note my corrections above.

Do you teach just one student at a time? If so, "My student chose ..." is fine but if you were teaching several people at the same time, use "One of my students chose ...".

 

[Caprilla]

Please note my corrections above.

Do you teach just one student at a time? If so, "My student chose ..." is fine but if you were teaching several people at the same time, use "One of my students chose ...".

Thanks for corrections!
You got it right, I teach one student at a time.

 

[emsr2d2]

Thanks for your/the corrections!
You got it right; I teach one student at a time.

See above. In my opinion, that's the perfect way to teach!