SUBJECT : RESEARCH WRITING DATE : 25 OCT , 2022

Agreement of subject and verb

Submitted by : Ali Shimal Kzar
Supervised by : ASST. PROF : Huda Abd Ali Hattab
 • A verb must agree in number ( i.e., singular and plural ) with its subject ,
regardless of intervening phrases that begin with subject words as
together with , including , plus , and as well as.
• COORRECT : the percentage of correct responses as well as the speed of
the responses increases with practice.
• INCORRECT : the percentage of correct responses as well as the speed of
the responses increase with practice.

Nouns of foreign origin

 The plural form of some nouns of foreign origin , particularly those that ends in the
latter a , may appear to be singular and can cause authors to select a verb that
does not agree in number with the noun.
 CORRECT : The data indicate that Terrence was correct.
 CORRECT : The phenomena occur every 100 years.
 INCORRECT : the phenomena occurs every 100 years.

BRACKETS
 to enclose the values that are the limits of a confidence interval
 F 95% CIs [—7.2, 4.3], [9.2, 12.4], and [—1.2, -0.5] I
 to enclose material inserted in a quotation by some person other than the original
H ! writer.
 "when [his own and others'] behaviors were studied" (Hanisch, 1992, p. 24) F U to
enclose parenthetical material that is already within parentheses (The results for
the control group [n = 8] are also presented in Figure 2.)

DO NOT USE BRACKETS :

 to set off statistics that already include parentheses.
 Correct:
 was statistically significant, F(l, 32) = 4.37, p = .045.
 Incorrect:
 was statistically significant (FR, 32] = 4.37, p = .045).
  Incorrect:
 was statistically significant EF(I, 32) = 4.37, p = .045]

REFERENCE :
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association (7th ed.). American Psychological Association.