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