第三章主谓一致中FLIP IT中的例子 Wrong:There IS a young man and an older woman at the bus stop. Flip it!:A young man and an older woman AREthere at the bus stop. Right:There ARE a young man and an older woman at the bus stop.
我觉得,subject is a compound subject(a young and an older woman),这是一个复合主语,所以是plural,并且,and连接不同名词构成复数结构,verb is plural。所以,不看there be structure, we could say it is plural.