In today's episode, we're going to answer some bizarre and puzzling questions.

Can two people share a life?

Can two writers share a neck?

How many heads does a person have?

Today, guest writer Bonnie Trangga tells us that the issue at hand is what's called subject

complement agreement.

A complement, that's M-E-N-T, is a noun that completes meaning.

If the sentence she is my sister, the words my sister are the complement.

There's no agreement problem in that sentence, it's all singular.

But what about a sentence like this?

The two girls ate their sandwich.

Does that mean the girls shared one sandwich?

Or did they each have a sandwich?

A few confused listeners have brought up such tricky sentences for us to parse.

For example, Drew R asks whether it would be proper to write.

They visited each other's shrine, or they visited each other's shrines.

And Kathleen M poses these questions.

Is it, we help clients get the most out of their life?

Or we help clients get the most out of their lives?

What about the writers complained that their neck was sore?

Or the writers complained that their necks were sore?

Those are all good questions that forced us to dig deeply within many grammar resources,

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