【 在 darkmaru 的大作中提到: 】
: 您提到的“靠近一致原则”通常适用于特定语境下的英语语法，特别是当主语由"or"或"nor"连接的时候。例如，在句子“Either the chair or the bottles are in the room.”中，动词“are”与靠近它的名词“bottles”（复数形式）一致。
: 然而，在楼主的“There () a bottle and a chair in the room.”中，主语“a bottle and a chair”是由“and”连接的，表示的是两样东西的组合，因此构成了复数概念。在这种情况下，我们通常会使用复数形式的动词“are”，而不是单数形式“is”。所以，正确的句子应该是：“There are a bottle and a chair in the room.”
: 总的来说，就近原则主要适用于由“or”或“nor”连接的主语，而不是由“and”连接的主语。
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简单说，都对，不过"is"更常用更口语。

They are both correct depending on how the nouns are rendered, the first one requires disjunctive tones to be applied, the second conjunctive ones. Every English dialect has a strategy to do this, usually it’s with a combination of tones and pauses.

The first in writing should have two commas to clarify the phrasing:

"There is an orange, and an apple, on the table."

You should do this even if you are a native speaker who does this with tones and no pauses, out of consideration to the sensibilities of others who will read it as conjunctive and cringe.

"There are an orange and an apple on the table." is a little stiff compared to the more natural "There are an orange and apple on the table."

You can think of it like this logically:

"There ( is [ an orange ] ) and ( null copula [ an apple ] ) on the table" compared to

"There ( are [ an orange and an apple ] ) on the table"

All of these are noticeably more emphatic than the contracted “There’s” or the clitic “there’re” forms. The least emphatic way to put this is to use the phrase final clitic without ‘there’ “An orange ’n apple’re on the table.”
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