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You have four trees.
Would you say?
they stand
or
they stands
stands
Would you say?
they stand
or
they stands
Other examples:
They jump.
They know.
They study.
They write.
Or maybe the word would be stood depending on what sentence you're using it in.
Explain please?
In this case, the subject is a combination of both singular ("one maple") and plural ("three elms") nouns. When a sentence has a plural noun combined with a singular noun as the subject, we look at the plural noun to determine the verb form.
Since "elms" is the plural noun in this case, the correct verb form would be "stand." Therefore, the correct sentence would be:
"One maple and three elms stand in the yard."