My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English

Along came a distraction
Sometimes  an  expression  may  creep  between  a  subject  and  its  verb.  Don’t  let
this lead you astray.
The  nurserymaid  ,  along  with  the  cook  and  the  housekeeper,  has  caught
chickenpox from the children.
Poisoning , as well as the shock of the bite, was the cause of death.
My husband , besides our neighbour and his dog, is walking the coastal path.
We’ll have a closer look at those parenthetical commas in the next chapter, but
for the moment just note that they are precisely that – a parenthesis or bracket –
and everything between them could be lifted out of the sentence without altering
the grammatical relationship between the subject and the verb.