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"Copy and paste work here." or "Copy and paste works here."?
The question really is - should "copy and paste" be considered plural or singular. If you think of it as "copy and (then) paste" then it is singular - one task. If you think of it as "you can copy or you can paste" then there are two items, and that makes "copy and paste" plural. Please help!!
If it helps, I am giving a tip so users can copy from one question on a document and paste it as an answer in another section.
3 Answers
- Gretchen SLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I vote for considering "copy and paste" as one process, therefore singular. Kind of like "Two hours is too long to bake a cake." Two hours is one amount of time.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
When a series of words is used as one word it used to be common to put hyphens between the words: cut-and-paste.
