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Comumites, class and family. eg. The faraly fuss a dong fésdony of wittens: The committe fas prepared the agence. 11. With, fogeiner with, including, accompanied by, im addition in, or as well Go mot change the sumber of the subject. @ the subject is singuiar, the verb ton. @.g The Chatman, tocfoding ffs team, is fravelieg in CAina The bors, fogetives aif their friends. ore going for a picnic. 42. The reiative pronouns (who, whom, which, and that) ae efher singular or flural, depending on fhe words they refer fo. a. The aes ppanager is good pesewenber who spends a peal amoore of fime suring fhe Meet for information. Subject: The sales. manager Verte: is, spends 43.4 few nouns. can be either plural of singular, Gepending on whether hhey Tmean a group or Separate individuals. These words are mely usedi as plunats. in modem wating. eg 1. The Amy Aas decided enaninously. ‘Subject jury Werb: Is 2 The fory are fering an argument. ‘Subject Jury Web: are having ‘4. Deo not be misted by a phase that comes bebween the subject and ihe verb. The ageses: with the subject, nol with 2 noun or pronoun in the phere. e.g. One of ihe bores & open. The people who lisfen: io music are few. 75. Two singular subjects conmected by elfher'or or neitherror require @ singular verb os in Rude 1. eu Meader Joon sor Abmham i arated, Ether Bipasha or nesiam is belping today wilh stage cecoreior YO. Whenis one of the heocubjects comected by efector or meiiherear, pal fseoond and follow & with the singular verb om. e.g. Meviner he nor Jam poteg io ibe festival 7. With words fal indicate portions-percent, faction, part, majorly, some, ai, none, wemainder, andoeo forth: —lonk at the moun in your ‘of phrase (object Of Ihe Prepeition} 10 Oetermine wheter io ue 2 singular of plural verb. if ihe Object of the preposkion is singular, wee o singular verb, © the object of the PRBpOS Hon bs DOr, Ue a pera vert ep ft. Pity percest of ihe of fas disappeared iP is ihe odfect of ihe proposition of.) 2. Filly percent! of tbe pies fave cisappeared. 3 Gnedhrd of fhe city ip unempoyedt 4. Onethed of fhe peoole are unemproyed. MOTE: Hyphenate all speiied-oud fractions. 3 AN of dhe: pie is pone. (6. AP of ihe es are gone. 7. Sovee of the pie is miesiog. iB Some of ioe pies are missing. TE. Use a singuar ve with sams of money of periods of time. e.g. Ten dollars ts a high price to pay. Five years is ihe manimum sentence for thal offense. Identifying the subject Word groups offen come fetween the subject and the vert These word QUES May COnbaIn a noun that at first appears: bo be he matyect identify ine word group between the subject and ihe verb in order bo isotade fhe noun eg The pit ors afl day. (singular subjects e.g The slaugiter of pandas for dhe pels hawe caused panda popuiaiion bo orn ee ns not. an ef ficial one Questions: | hw. recru itment .quru Olrecfons: Find owt fe eros, If any in qvesitons piven in each practice set ff there fs mo error, the answer fs fej, Le Mo error figeove the errors: of punctuation, If any.) 7.4 few Aflomefers beyood fal tat villa was seen feo allens ib Vafongy wih ic} a few Americans and Ausslan scleniists ov Wo enor fel 2. tis we Anos fect that fabthe oper middie class have oo sot (by comer for the poor and dt oppressed who ae ihe real wolfe of ths social system (dv Wo error fel. 2 Sheetal as wel as fy sowee of fer tienes (naee feller in jove wettty a Dunay Peviow, WOO (0) 0s the eldest son of an fLA_S. officer joy No enor fe. 4. More tan ome successful candidate of this Institute (aeiave taken the feiervew for ane jbo! te most popular dailies fovbeing published from Los Angels fol No error jel 4. More ther ane book on [fe sive fal and motwaion by Ms weiter (hituve Deen pubivshed 20 farand jolal are selling Ube a fot cote (ov Ao erro fel. @& Many 2 man afong wiih jalea few fvends of mine are going (bbc QevGhar fo offer flowers and foie to Lord Siva si Mo evror se), 7. Many an empfoyer of ifs company @ are supposed to be fransferred jb to some olter company kv of fe same category becanse of recession ddl’ No error fei. O. The politica’ deader as weil as jal’ Als reiimues are godng on a hunger (Oy Strike fo protest tus fcl onreeoessary price Awe sl Wo error fey. 3. Alfhowgh ts book as well as dhose fi books of pours are similar (Vin many ways, mine fas [cl an edge over mary a book of pours joy Wo erro fal. #0. The prise minister wong with Ais GW aftencants are coming foworrow (bl fo address ihe sensadonal él! and controversial iseues of terroriam sol’ No error fe ANSWers.. af zn Le 4b ie am va ao aD armaion. This is not an official one Mission BGS Exam: Rutesof Subject Verb Agreement Dear Readers. Many of our readers were demanding mies fo Grammar, considering this here, we are providing rules of Subject Verb Agesemeni, which & crm of erire Gramma. We are providing you q@iz of Engish which Is one of the Tost important sections of banking eaams, inowhich you can score maximum with ease & you ae practicing on very regular basis, {lt & crucial for af the upcoming hanking eaams, |BPS/RRS etc Subject — Ver Agreement relates to number agreement (singular or Plural) between the subject and the verb that iow: A. Bop. The git pays af day. (elogutor sutiect? The gids olay al cay. (oun! peter) ® There are bwo important esceptions to subject - verb agresment_ Firsily. agreement only apples when fhe wert is in ite present lense. In the past tense, then is mo-over agreement between the sugject and fhe verb. eg The pin payed al cay ‘The gitls payed ad cay. = And secondly, agement applies onfy fo third person subjects. ‘There is nd distinction behecen a firs! person singular subject and a first person plural subject. eg. | poy all cy. ve play at cay. The main principle is: Singular subjects need sAngular verbs = plural subjects need ; ural subjects need peural vert. Some basic robes: 4. When subpect of a senience is composed of fwo of more nour of Pronouns connected by and. we use a plural vert He and fis fiends are of the far. This rife is not foliow when tao nouns peter to the same object. The wicket beeper and Captain was: ghren fhe man of fie maich award. @ When taro or mote singular nouns oor pronouns are connected by of or nor, We WSe a Singur verb e.g. The paper or the pencils in ihe desk. When a compound subject contains both a singular and a plural nogn or pennoun joined by or or nor, Ihe wert show agree with fhe part of the subject that is nearer bo the verb. e.g. Sia on his friends mun every day, AS Menge oF Shain Mune Brey oy. 4. Doesn is: confaction of does mot and should be weed only wih a singular subject. Don't is. a contmaction of do not and should be used only with a plurai subject. The exorpiion to this rule appears in the case of the first person and Gecond person pronauns | and you. With these pronouns fhe contraction don't should be used ep She doesent ite ft. They dot Mine 5.4 pnrase between fhe suiject and the vem shoud not be misieading, the wert agrees with fhe subject, mot wiih a noun or pronoun in the phn. e.g. The caphan, as: wed as his players, is arunoess. The Good, in parts, i borg. The butoing. ait al ts coments, js insared. 6. Each, each one, siiher, nefher, everyone, eweryhody, anybody, nobody, somebody, sme one and no one are singular and require: a singular vee. e.g Each of Inese books fs good. Evernrbody knows him. Eber & vorect. 7. Nouns such as civics, malhemafics, mupecs and news requir singular orm ton. .This,is not an official one

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