Which rule best explains why the verb in the following sentence is correct? The owner or the business managers need to prepare the annual budget.
A. Both parts of the compound subject are plural, so a plural verb is used.
B. This sentence has a mixed compound subject connected by or, so the verb agrees with the first singular subject.
C. A plural indefinite pronoun comes before the compound subject, so a plural verb is used.
D. This sentence has a mixed compound subject connected by or, so the verb agrees with the plural subject that is closer.

When i was four years old, my dad and i a tree in our front yard. it was a tiny, fragile sapling. he promised me that it would grow tall and strong, but he said that i had to be patient. until i turned 18 years old, dad and i it every year on my birthday. choose the words that correctly fill in the blanks.

Read the excerpt from act iv, scene iv of romeo and juliet. capulet: good faith! ’tis day: the county will be here with music straight, for so he said he would. [music within.] i hear him near. nurse! wife! what, no! what, nurse, i say! 30 re-enter nurse. go waken juliet, go and trim her up; i’ll go and chat with paris. hie, make haste, make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: make haste, i say. [exeunt.] 35 this scene is an example of dramatic irony used to create suspense since the audience knows that the musicians will not arrive on time. capulet approves of the match to paris. romeo is already married to juliet. the nurse will be unable to rouse juliet.

What point was thomas paine trying to make by relating this antidote