By: Claudia, Louis, Matías and Diego. Subject Verb Agreement.
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What is a Subject and a Verb?
• Subject: is the part of the sentence where something is being said.
• Verb: A word that indicates an action, an event, or a state.
Subject Verb Agreement Rules
• A singular subject needs a singular verb.Ex: My dog is playful. • A plural subject needs a plural verb. Ex: They are going camping. • Words modifying the number or quantity of
the subject may affect the conjugation of the verb
Key:Red= subjectGreen= verb
- Singular “forever”
• The indefinite pronouns anyone, someone, no one, nobody, everyone, neither, either and everybody are always singular, even though they might sound plural.
Ex: Almost everyone from a small island is insular about how big a city can be.
- Hide and Seek
• Sometimes modifiers will get between a subject and its verb, but these modifiers will not change the agreement between the subject and its verb.
Ex: The emperor, who has been convicted along with his four accomplices on four counts of various crimes but who also seems, like a cat, to have several lives, is finally going to jail.
- None decided
• There is one indefinite pronoun, none, that can be either singular or plural; it often doesn't matter whether you use a singular or a plural verb as long as there is nothing else in the sentence determines its number.
Ex: None of the attaché was good enough to help him keep track of his meetings.
- and Unique
• Phrases such as together with, as well as, and along with are not the same as and, which compounds subjects. These words are only modifiers.
Ex: The Machiavellian president as well his staff has not left office.
- adding S
• Verbs in the present tense for third-person, singular subjects (he, she, it and anything those words can stand for) have s-endings. Other verbs don’t.
• She haves a good personality and a good protocol, from Buddhist roots.
- “Optimism”
• If your sentence compounds a positive and a negative subject and one is plural, and the other singular, the verb should agree with the positive subject.
Ex: It is not the consul but the president who decides the tariff.
1) One of the most intelligent students who________ full marks _______ Johnny.
a) scoreb) scores
a) isb) are
5) She _____ a problem with one of her best friends, going to the office for arbitration.
a) hasb) haves