Copying and pasting from an Internet article on pets
<em>Answer:</em>
<em>When World War II broke out. </em>
<em>Explanation: A Clause is a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.</em>
Dad scolded Miriam for skipping her chores.<span>No one likes my cooking.
</span>Working out always makes me hungry.<span>Playing is all the cat does.
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Rule 1. A subject will come before a phrase beginning with of. This is a key rule for understanding subjects. The word of is the culprit in many, perhaps most, subject-verb mistakes.
A bouquet of yellow roses lends color and fragrance to the room.
Rule 2. Two singular subjects connected by or, either/or, or neither/nor require a singular verb.
My aunt or my uncle is arriving by train today.
