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- 1. Agreement : Subject – Verb Agreement
- 2. Every sentence includes at least one subject and one verb. They can be either singular or plural, but they must be the same. If one is singular and the other is plural, the reader will end up confused. In other words, the subject and verb have to agree. Number is the term used to describe the form of a word that indicates whether the word is singular or plural. When a word refers to one person, place, thing, or idea, it is singular in number. When a word refers to more than one, it is plural in number. Two words agree when they have the same number. The number of a verb must always agree with the number of its subject.
- 3. Singular subjects take singular verbs. EXAMPLE The flag flies on holidays. [The singular verb flies agrees with the singular subject flag.] Plural subjects take plural verbs. EXAMPLE Some trees change color in the fall. [The plural verb change agrees with the plural subject trees.]
- 4. When a sentence contains a verb phrase, the first helping verb in the verb phrase agrees with the subject. EXAMPLES The turtle is racing. The flight has been postponed. The turtles are racing. The flights have been postponed.
- 5. Intervening Prepositional Phrases The number of a subject is not changed by a phrase following the subject. EXAMPLES The winner of those ribbons is the spaniel. [The verb is agrees with the subject winner.] The seventh-grade teacher, along with a few of her students, walks to school. [The verb walks agrees with the subject teacher.] Musicians from Peru and Ecuador have played in our auditorium. [The helping verb have agrees with the subject Musicians.]
- 6. If the subject is an indefinite pronoun, its number may be determined by a prepositional phrase that follows it. EXAMPLES Some of the grass is dead. [The helping verb is agrees in number with the singular noun grass.] Some of the blades were damaged. [The helping verb were agrees in number with the plural noun blades.]