How subject and predicate are coordinated

The subject and predicate are the main members of the sentence and carry the main semantic load. The subject in the sentence denotes the subject, and answers the questions "What?" and “Who?”, the predicate is connected with the subject and indicates his actions or condition.

All attention is on activity

The rules for reconciling the subject and the predicate are very simple, despite the apparent ornate nature of their language. If the subject includes the words "row", "plural", "minority", "majority", "part" and a controlled numeral in the genitive case, it is worth determining whether the activity of the persons is emphasized in this case: "Some of the students passed their homework to 5!"

If the passivity of the indicated subject is emphasized, then the singular is used: "The students did not pass their homework. Most of them stood staring aside." Also, the singular is used when it comes to an inanimate subject: "A number of books in the library remained untouched." If the subject is expressed in a quantitative-nominal combination (six people, nine minutes), then you should pay attention to whether it is active.

Compare: “Twenty-five deuces in the Russian language showed off in Petya’s diary” and “Six students awaited grades.” A singular will look like a powerful one if: it indicates passivity of action ("Six students awaited grades"); refers to the subject, denoting inanimate objects, or animals ("After the opening of the tray with the Shawarma in the city, not a single cat remained on the streets of thirty"); predicate with a composite numeral ending in "one" ("Thirty cats run away from the Shawarma seller / Thirty one cats run away from the Shawarma seller).

But if cats and dogs unite against a malicious merchant, then we will talk about "equal rights and activity of actors." Conclusion - when working in a team and joint actions we use the plural ("Cats with dogs drove the Shawarma seller to a tree").

If the main character is one - then we put the predicate in the singular ("The seller of" Shawarma "with his cook chased cats all day, but never caught up with a single one). In the event that an application appeared at the subject, then it will not affect the coordination in any way ("Sellers of the Shawarma stall cook deliciously. But" Shawarma was delicious ").