By: Claudia, Louis, Matías and Diego.

Subject Verb Agreement

What is a Subject and a Verb?

• Subject: is the part of the sentence where something is being said.

• Verb: A word that indicates an action, an event, or a state.

Subject Verb Agreement Rules

• A singular subject needs a singular verb.Ex: My dog is playful. • A plural subject needs a plural verb. Ex: They are going camping. • Words modifying the number or quantity of

the subject may affect the conjugation of the verb

Key:Red= subjectGreen= verb

- Singular “forever”

• The indefinite pronouns anyone, someone, no one, nobody, everyone, neither, either and everybody are always singular, even though they might sound plural.

Ex: Almost everyone from a small island is insular about how big a city can be.

- Hide and Seek

• Sometimes modifiers will get between a subject and its verb, but these modifiers will not change the agreement between the subject and its verb.

Ex: The emperor, who has been convicted along with his four accomplices on four counts of various crimes but who also seems, like a cat, to have several lives, is finally going to jail.

- None decided

• There is one indefinite pronoun, none, that can be either singular or plural; it often doesn't matter whether you use a singular or a plural verb as long as there is nothing else in the sentence determines its number.

Ex: None of the attaché was good enough to help him keep track of his meetings.

- and Unique

• Phrases such as together with, as well as, and along with are not the same as and, which compounds subjects. These words are only modifiers.

Ex: The Machiavellian president as well his staff has not left office.

- adding S

• Verbs in the present tense for third-person, singular subjects (he, she, it and anything those words can stand for) have s-endings. Other verbs don’t.

• She haves a good personality and a good protocol, from Buddhist roots.

- “Optimism”

• If your sentence compounds a positive and a negative subject and one is plural, and the other singular, the verb should agree with the positive subject.

Ex: It is not the consul but the president who decides the tariff.

QUIZ!

1) One of the most intelligent students who________ full marks _______ Johnny.

a) scoreb) scores

a) isb) are

Answer

a) score

and

a) is

2) It’s not ignorance but discretion that ____ going to help you.

a) isb) are

Answer

a) is

3) Gold, as well as platinum,_______ recently risen in price.

a) hasb) have

Answer

a) has

4) One of the covenants with France______ been missing from Congress.

a) haveb) has

Answers

b) has

5) She _____ a problem with one of her best friends, going to the office for arbitration.

a) hasb) haves

Answer

B) haves

6) Discretion ____necessary to maintain the order and quality of our world.

a) Isb) Are

Answer

A) is

THE END!