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Verb Basics: Subject-Verb Agreement & Simple Past Tenses

Verb Basics: Subject-Verb Agreement & Simple Past Tenses. Power Point Presentation Daniel, Dean, Darian. Subject-Verb Agreement. The verb must agree in number with the subject. Singular subjects need singular verbs. Plural subjects need plural verbs. Regular and Irregular verbs.

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Verb Basics: Subject-Verb Agreement & Simple Past Tenses

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  1. Verb Basics:Subject-Verb Agreement & Simple Past Tenses Power Point Presentation Daniel, Dean, Darian

  2. Subject-Verb Agreement • The verb must agree in number with the subject. Singular subjects need singular verbs. Plural subjects need plural verbs.

  3. Regular and Irregular verbs • Verb: a word that shows action or a state of being • Regular verb: a verb is regular if it takes “ed” as an ending in the past tense. • Irregular verb: a verb is irregular if it changes form or spelling in the past tense rather than taking “ed” as an ending.

  4. Procedure for determining agreementof subject and verb: • 1. Identify the real subject. • 2. Determine whether the subject is singular or plural. • 3. Match the verb to the subject.

  5. Examples • The woman IS beautiful. • The women ARE beautiful.

  6. Errors and Corrections • My father, along with several of his friends, are buying an antique boat. (incorrect) • My father, along with several of his friends, is buying an antique boat. (correct)

  7. Singular or Plural • All • Any • Some

  8. Singular pronouns take singular verbs when the pronouns are used as subjects in the sentence. For instance: • Anybody Everybody • Anyone Neither • Anything • Either • Nobody • None • Each

  9. Works Cited • Purdue OWL. “Subject-Verb Agreement Guide." The Online Writing Lab at Purdue. 10 May 2008. Purdue University Writing Lab. 7 July 2008 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/599/01/>. • Rodrigues,Dawn, and Myron C. Tuman.Writing Essentials. 1st Ed. New York:Norton, 1996.

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