4. Verbs must agree with their subjects in NUMBER
➲ If the subject is SINGULAR, the verb must be in its SINGULAR form
➲ If the verb is PLURAL, the verb must be in its PLURAL form
➲ Examples: The student helps the old lady across the street.
The students help the old lady across the street.
Helping verbs must agree with their subjects
➲ If subject ‘I’ , the helping verb (to be) must be ‘AM’
➲ If subject ‘He’, ‘She’, ‘It’ , the helping verb (to be) must be ‘IS’
➲ If subject ‘They’, ‘We’, ‘You’ , the helping verb (to be) must be ‘ARE’
➲ Examples: Tom is going to bread store
Ali and Tiana are cleaning the windows
5. Identify the Sentences
• My boss leave / leaves early every Friday
• Bert and Ernie is / are special friends
• Those belong/belongs to my cousin
• That is/am/are my fiancée
• These is/am/are my favorite foods
• This is/am/are not her bag
6. Indefinite Pronouns
➲ Indefinite pronouns are singular
• every, everyone, everybody, each, neither, either, none, one, no one
• Every student has a unique student number
• None of us admits to sending the e-mail message
• Each of the five departments is hiring new instructors
Collective Nouns
➲ Words such as jury, committee, or herd will be singular when everyone in the group is
acting together
• The jury are deciding the fate of the accused
➲ It will be plural when the members of the group are not acting together
• The jury is looking at the audience for vote
7. Titles
➲ The title of a movie, book or magazine requires a singular verb
• Lost Horizons is a book about a utopia
• The Simpsons is my favourite TV show
Words Ending in ‘S’
➲ Words such as economics, AIDS, physics and news are singular
• Economics is fun and exciting
• The news is usually broadcast live
➲ Words such as scissors, eyeglasses and pants that name things
with two parts are plural
• My glasses were broken when I did a face plant
27. Modal verbs - Negative Form
• CANNOT (CAN’T)
Meaning “definitely not” / “I’m sure not”
• SHOULD NOT (SHOULDN’T)
Meaning “I advise you to / not to”
• MUST NOT (MUSTN’T)
Meaning “it is forbidden to do something”
