1.The knight has stolen the virtue of a maiden. To live, he must answer the question, "what is the thing that most women desire?" He has a year and a day to find the answer.
2. In exchange for the correct answer to the queen's question, the knight will do whatever the old women asks of him. To fulfill the bargain, he marries her, because that is her demand.
3.He says she is old, plain, poor, and low bred, meaning not of "gentle birth" or nobility.
4.She says he can choose to have old, ugly, but loyal until she dies or he can have her young and pretty and take his chances of her loyalty.
5.She transforms her self into a young and lovely women.
A topic refers to the particular theme or subject of a sentence, essay or speech.
In other words, it may refer to the category or class of argument or consideration.
The above sentence focuses on the theme of shift time which makes it the appropriate topic of consideration.
Therefore, the topic of the sentence is shift time change
Either the Fishers or their daughter has seen the house for sale.
With the correlative conjunction either-or we decide the subject-verb agreement by the closest noun to the verb, in this arrangement, the noun daughter is closest to the verb to see, singular pronoun <em>she</em> is agreeing <em>with has seen</em>.
Other similar examples:
Either Susanna or <em>her children are going</em> shopping for Christmas this Sunday.
Either his brothers or David has broken the granny's porcelain vase.
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