Conjunction omitted.
The conjunction may be omitted, as in Sec. 440 (5, b), but the verb is plural, as with a subject of plural form.
A shady grove, a green pasture, a stream of fresh water, are sufficient to attract a colony.—Gibbon.
The Dauphin, the Duke of Berri, Philip of Anjou, were men of insignificant characters.—Macaulay
(4) When a singular is joined with a plural by a disjunctive word, the verb agrees with the one nearest it; as,—
One or two of these perhaps survive.—Thoreau.
One or two persons in the crowd were insolent.—Froude.
One or two of the ladies were going to leave.—Addison
One or two of these old Cromwellian soldiers were still alive in the village.—Thackeray
One or two of whom were more entertaining.—De Quincey.