Subject-Verb Agreement
You will practice how to make the subject and verb in a sentence agree in number and person in English.
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Learning Objectives
- Master correct subject-verb agreement to ensure your professional emails sound polished and accurate when describing team projects or individual tasks in the office.
- Analyze how subject-verb agreement changes when using singular indefinite pronouns like 'everyone' versus plural subjects in casual conversations about your weekend travel plans.
- Compare sentences with prepositional phrases to avoid common subject-verb agreement mistakes where the noun closest to the verb distracts from the true grammatical subject.
- Identify and rectify subject-verb agreement errors in academic writing to maintain high standards of clarity and formal tone throughout your university assignments and research.
How to Get the Most from This Topic
- Identify the true grammatical subject to ensure proper subject-verb agreement.
- Remember that collective nouns like 'staff' often require singular verbs.
- Add an 's' to present simple verbs for third-person singular subjects.
- Check if words between subject and verb affect your agreement.
- Avoid letting plural nouns in phrases confuse your subject-verb agreement.
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- Verify that compound subjects joined by 'and' use plural verb forms.