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Subjectverbagreement
Subjectverbagreement
Singular Plural
• I walk • We walk
• You walk • You walk
• He/She/It walk s • They walk
• Joe walk s • Joe and Maria walk
• The girl walk s • The girls walk
Remember there are irregular verbs:
• DO
Singular Plural
• He does They do
• HAVE
• She has They have
• BE
• He is They are
• She was They were
Tip for Subject/verb Agreement
-S on
verb
The girl dances.
-S on
subject
Examples:
• The professor or the students walk the
halls.
• The students or the professor walks the
halls.
Indefinite Pronouns
•Some indefinite pronouns are always singular. Here
are some examples: anyone, everyone, someone, no
one, nobody
•Others can be either singular or plural (all, some)
• Everybody loves grammar!
• Some people love grammar.
Relative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns (who/which/that) can be
either singular or plural, depending on the
word they refer to.
Example
X
The students in my class study / studies
hard.
In the sentences below, do the
subjects & verbs agree?
• They goes to the gym after class to work out.
• Harry and his friends wants to see the new movie
coming out this weekend.
• The cat who is meowing at my door wants in.
• Neither the cat nor the dogs likes the new food.
• The mayor as well as his brothers are going to jail.
• Nobody wants to dance.
• The paper or the ruler are in the desk.