Kenneth Carter's "Web Surfing" column in Sunday's The Birmingham News lists some interesting and funny websites that have to do with being "nuts." One questions who really invented peanut butter, and another mentions the thousands of pounds of nuts sent to CBS when the network canceled the "Jericho" series. You can find all of them by checking the www.blog.al.com/techcetera website.
In one of the entries, Carter messed up the subject/verb agreement. He was talking about the http://www.jackassworld.com/ website and made this statement about the "idiots" who perform crazy stunts for MTV. Here is his sentence:
Their hairbrained stunts and masochistic behavior boggles the mind.
Because Carter writes about BOTH stunts AND behavior, he has a COMPOUND (plural) SUBJECT with two items connected by "and." Therefore, he needs the plural verb "boggle." The sentence should read as follows:
Their hairbrained stunts and masochistic behavior boggle the mind.
Even if you check out http://www.jackassworld.com/, I hope these nuts and their stunts don't (not "doesn't") give you any stupid ideas.
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