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Subject-Verb Agreement
What is a subject?
- The subject of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.
Examples - Builders are at work.
- The large car stopped outside our house.
A subject can be-
1. Singular
e.g. a pen, a body, a box
2. Plural
e.g. children, plates, boxes
3. Uncountable
e.g. furniture , sugar
What is a verb?
A verb is a word which describes the action in a sentence (the doing word)
Examples
- I play football.
- They skip quickly.
- We eat spaghetti.
- Bob is seven today.
Therefore, all nouns can be either countable or uncountable.
Some nouns look as if they are plural but are in fact singular.
Eg:- Politics has been the most important thing in his life for many years.
Verbs can be either singular or plural.
SINGULAR VERB
Eg:- Acoustics is the study of the behavior of sound.
PLURAL VERB
Eg:- The acoustics in this hall are terrible.
Subject-Verb Agreement 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 present tenses, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways:
nouns ADD an s to the singular form, BUT verbs REMOVE an s from the singular form.
By
Soundarya
Mythri
Preyasha
Ashwin