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Subject-Verb Agreement

Subject-Verb Agreement. A quick how to tutorial :D. Subject-Verb Agreement. Basic Rules: Singular subjects need singular verbs. My brother is a teacher. Singular Subject. Singular Verb. Subject-Verb Agreement. Basic Rules: Plural subjects need plural verbs. My sisters are doctors.

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Subject-Verb Agreement

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  1. Subject-Verb Agreement A quick how to tutorial :D

  2. Subject-Verb Agreement Basic Rules: Singular subjects need singular verbs. My brotheris a teacher. Singular Subject Singular Verb

  3. Subject-Verb Agreement Basic Rules: Plural subjects need plural verbs. My sistersare doctors. Plural Subject Plural Verb

  4. Subject-Verb Agreement Subject Verb Singular: Subjects and verbs must agree in number. The doggrowls when it is angry. Subject Verb Plural: The dogsgrowl when they are angry.

  5. Subject-Verb Agreement Subject Verb Singular: Subjects and verbs must agree in number. The doggrowls when it is angry. Subject Verb Plural: The dogsgrowl when they are angry.

  6. Subject-Verb Agreement Do not get confused with words that come in between the subject and verb. They do not affect the agreement. The dog, who is usually active, is acting quite lazy today.

  7. Subject-Verb Agreement Prepositional phrases between the subject and the verb do not usually affect the agreement . The colours of the rainbow are beautiful.

  8. Subject-Verb Agreement If the sentence starts with “here” or “there” then the subject comes after the verb. There isa problem with the teacher. Here arethe papers from class.

  9. Subject-Verb Agreement There is, there was and there has been should be used if the following subject is singular. There is a man at the gate.

  10. Subject-Verb Agreement Compound subjects joined by “and” usually need a plural verb. The cat and the dogare playing catch.

  11. Subject-Verb Agreement A compound subject joined by “or, nor , either…or, neither… or” requires a singular verb if each verb in the compound sentence in singular. Neither the dog or thecat is hungry.

  12. Subject-Verb Agreement If the subjects are both plural and it has “or, nor , either…or, neither… or” the verb will be plural. Catsnordogsare friendly to enemies.

  13. Subject-Verb Agreement If verbs like “each, every or no” come before the subject then the verb is singular. Nosmoking or drinking is allowed. Every boy and girl is required to write the test.

  14. Subject-Verb Agreement Hope you learned something new!

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