third person singular

1) The film is full of horror and suspense THAT KEEP the viewers spellbound.

2) The film is full of horror and suspense THAT KEEPS the viewers spellbound.

I think so Ahmed

If both are correct, what are the differences between them? 2] more nearly collo since the horror and suspense are thought very closely connected as a unit

They are both correct grammatically but they mean different things. The plural verb refers to both things, (the horror and the suspense) but the singular verb only refers to the previous single thing mentioned (the suspense).

1) The film is full of horror and suspense THAT KEEP the viewers spellbound.

1) The film is full of horror and suspense. They both keep the viewers spellbound.

2) The film is full of horror and suspense THAT KEEPS the viewers spellbound..

2) The film is full of horror and suspense. The suspense keeps the viewers spellbound.(The implication is that the horror does not.)

Consider:

The cake is full of nuts and fruit which are delicious.

The cake is full of nuts and fruit which is delicious.

Mary has skin and hair which are beautiful.

Mary has skin and hair which is beautiful.

Someone who is a cowardly fool voted me down. However I stand by what I wrote. If anyone disagrees with me I challenge them to say why.

I'm sure if I were a foreigner asking language questions and I got an explanation like that, I'd think, "What the **** is that ****** on about?"

I voted you back up. U R rite.

(It wasn't me, I never use the device.)

Of course this is true Ahmed, I just didn't tumble at the time. Got to give Con the credit

You're quite right, Mac. Over a period of 17 years I have received one or two queries from an esl. Granted it's not an "official" abbreviation and in fact I had hoped for an inquiry or two, perhaps hoping to establish it locally

But should my hopes, innocent as they seem, be dashed so fiercely