Subject-Verb agreement

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Subject-Verb agreement

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Dear Alan,

When the subject of a sentence consists of 2 or more uncountable nouns, should we use a plural or singular verb after the subject? For example:

Honesty and punctuality is/are virtues?

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Re: Subject-Verb agreement

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