SUBJECT- VERB AGREEMENT

AND

OR

REMEMBER!

OR, EITHER …OR, NEITHER … OR= IS, WASMy mother or my father is picking me up.Neither Romeo nor Juliet was alive.Either Kate or Jack is helping today.

HOWEVER!!!Neither I nor my friends are going to the festival.

Excitement, as well as nervousness, is the cause of her shaking.

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT WITH EXPRESSIONS OF QUANTITY

SOME – ANY – A LOT OF

EVERY – EACH – EITHER – NEITHER= SINGULAR (IS, WAS, HAS, WRITES …)

EITHER OF – NEITHER OF = PLURAL NOUN SING. / PLURAL

EVERY ONE OF PLURALNOUN = SING. VERBEACH (ONE) OF

EACH/EVERY X AND Y = SING. (IS,WAS,GOES)

ONE-THIRD, TWO-THIRDS, FIFTY PERCENT

THE NUMBER OF …. = IS, WASA NUMBER OF …. = ARE, WERE

IT / THEY

PEOPLE – POLICE – CATTLE

GLASSES, PANTS, PYJAMAS, JEANS, SHORTS, TIGHTS, TROUSERS,

SCISSORS, TWEEZERS, TONGS…

IRREGULARITIES!!!!!

THE POOR, THE RICH…

ANOTHER (HERHANGİ BİR BAŞKA, BİR DİĞERİ)

• SINGULAR• Can I have another knife? This one is blunt.• This knife is blunt, can I have another?

THE OTHER -SINGULAR

WITH PLURAL NOUNS

OTHER (ADJ.) / OTHERS (PRONOUN)

There were other people in the office.Some people were in the meeting room,

whereas others were in the office.

THE OTHER / THE OTHERS (THE REST)

There are three books on my desk.Two of them are mine, the other is yours.One of them is mine, the others are yours.

WITH SOME, ANY, MANY, ETC.