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- 1. SUBJECT & VERB AGREEMENT
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- What is subject and verb agreement? Understanding the basics:- Subjects and verbs must AGREE with one another in number (singular or plural). Thus, if a subject is singular, its verb must also be singular; if a subject is plural, its verb must also be plural. In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: nouns ADD an s to the singular form; verbs REMOVE the s from the singular form. Example : Singular -The dog chases the cat. Plural – The dogs chase the cat. These agreement rules do not apply to verbs used in the simple past tense without any helping verbs. Singular – The student talked to the teacher. Plural – The Students talked to the teacher. The agreement rules do, however, apply to the following helping verbs when they are used with a main verb: is-are , was-were , has-have , does-do . Example: The student has talked to the teacher. The students have talked to the teacher. The girl has been talking to me. The girls have been talking to me. The agreement rules do not apply to has-have when used as the SECOND helping verb in a pair. Examples helping verb remains the same The girl could have talked to me. The girls could have talked to me. The subject-verb agreement rules apply to all personal pronouns except I and you , which, although SINGULAR, require PLURAL forms of verbs. Examples John talks to Mary We talk to Mary I talk to Mary
- The remainder of this unit deals with some more advanced subject-verb agreement rules and with exceptions to the original subject-verb agreement rule.