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Subject-Verb Agreement

Subject-Verb Agreement. Pre-Assessment Try to find and correct all 7 errors!.

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Subject-Verb Agreement

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  1. Subject-Verb Agreement

  2. Pre-AssessmentTry to find and correct all 7 errors! Every day, my wife and I goes to the park to walk our dog, King. He really enjoy the walk that we take because, since my wife and I work, he are alone all day long. Sometimes we meets our friend Wendy in the park. She don’t have a dog, but she have a cat at home. Each one of us like to talk about animals.

  3. How do we know which verb form to use? We have to understand verb conjugation! Conjugation of a Regular Verb: To Sing

  4. Practice AConjugating Regular Verbs to Agree with Subjects • He ______________ cereal for breakfast every day. (eat, eats) • I ________________ going to the opera. (love, loves) • It _______________ like we’re going to have a beautiful day. (look, looks)

  5. Next, we’re going to try changing proper nouns to their pronoun forms so we can identify the correct verb form to match.

  6. Practice BIdentifying Appropriate Pronouns and Conjugating Verbs to Agree with Subjects • Sam and Esmerelda = • Larry and I = • Sarah = • The record player = • You and Bob =

  7. Some verbs are irregular, which means that they don’t conjugate in the typical pattern. We just have to memorize conjugation of irregular verbs.

  8. Conjugation of Common Irregular Verbs Conjugation of an Irregular Verb: To Be

  9. Conjugation of Common Irregular Verbs Conjugation of an Irregular Verb: To Have

  10. Practice CConjugating Irregular Verbs to Agree with Subjects • Today, my teacher (has, have) an apple. • Movies (is, are) fun to watch. • Shawn (do, does) not think that we (was, were) good when we (was, were) kids. • Jackie (refuse, refuses) to eat breakfast unless I (eat, eats) with her. • Pepsi (don’t, doesn’t) taste as good as Coke.

  11. Note: The following indefinite pronouns are always singular!

  12. Practice DConjugating Verbs to Agree with Indefinite Pronoun Subjects • (Is, Are) everybody going to the movies? • No one (was, were) as tired as me. • Everybody (has, have) a pencil. • Somebody (isn’t, aren’t) going to be happy. • Everything (be, is, are) peaceful now.

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