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Grammar Notes & Ex.- Subject-Verb Agreement

Grammar Notes & Ex.- Subject-Verb Agreement. Grammar Notes Subject-Verb Agreement (Freshmen). Grammar Notes & Ex.- Subject-Verb Agreement. A verb should agree in NUMBER with its subject . Singular subjects take singular verbs. Ex: HE WASHES the dishes.

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Grammar Notes & Ex.- Subject-Verb Agreement

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  1. Grammar Notes & Ex.-Subject-Verb Agreement Grammar Notes Subject-Verb Agreement (Freshmen)

  2. Grammar Notes & Ex.-Subject-Verb Agreement • A verb should agree in NUMBER with its subject. • Singular subjects take singular verbs. • Ex: HE WASHES the dishes. • The singular verb WASHES agrees with the singular subject HE • Plural subjects take plural verbs • Ex: The GIRLS in my school PLAY in the band. • The plural verb PLAY agrees with the plural subject GIRLS

  3. Grammar Notes & Ex.-Subject-Verb Agreement • A compound subject is two or more subjects joined by a conjunction that have the same verb. • Subjects joined by “and” generally take a plural verb • Ex: Rhyme, rhythm, and imagery help poets express their feelings. • Three things help. • Singular subjects joined by “or”/”nor” take singular verbs & vice versa • Ex: After dinner, either Anne or Tony loads the dishwasher. • Anne loads the dishwasher or Tony loads the dishwasher. • When a singular subject and a plural subject are joined by “or”/”nor” the verb agrees with the subject nearer the verb • Ex: Neither the children nor their mother was ready for the trip. • The verb was agrees with the singular subject mother

  4. Grammar Notes & Ex.-Subject-Verb Agreement • The contractions don’t and doesn’t should agree with their subjects. • Use don’t with all plural subjects & with the pronouns I and You • Ex: I don’t know We don’t want to • Use doesn’t with all singular subjects except the pronouns I and You • Ex: He doesn’t know It doesn’t want to

  5. Grammar Notes & Ex.-Verb Tense & Shifting Grammar Notes VERB TENSE & SHIFTING (Sophomore & Junior)

  6. Grammar Notes & Ex.-Verb Tense & Shifting • The tense of a verb indicates the time of the action or the state of being expressed by the verb.

  7. Grammar Notes & Ex.-Verb Tense & Shifting • The Six Tenses: • Present Tense: occurs in the “now” • Past Tense: in the past; not occurring in present • Future Tense: something that “will occur” • Present Perfect Tense: occurred in the past @ some point • Ex: She has visited Ireland. • The Past Perfect Tense: past action that ended before another past action occurs • Ex: Mr. Monteux told us the he had been a Peace Corps volunteer in Somalia. • The Future Perfect: action that will end before another future action • Ex: By the time you get this email, I will have returned home.

  8. Grammar Notes & Ex.-Verb Tense & Shifting • Consistency of Tense • When describing events that occur at the same time, use verbs in the same tense • Ex: Ray looked through his binoculars and saw a large bear as it raced back to the woods. • All the verbs are in the past tense • When describing events that occur at different times, use different tenses to show sequence of events. • Ex: Her family lives next door but will be moving next month. • Present tense lives is correct since it occurs now • Future tense will be moving is correct as it will be occurring in the future

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