This handout gives you several guidelines that will help your subjects and verbs to agree. Key: subject = yellow, bold; Verb = green, underlined For more help with the subject-verb agreement, see the section on Plural. In the example above, the plural corresponds to the actors of the subject. 1. Group nouns can be considered a unit and therefore accept a singular verb. Plural subjects separated by either. Or not. Again, both. and take everyone except a bural. 10-A. With one of these ________, which use a plural reverb. The rest of this class studies the problems of concordance of subjects that can result from the placement of words into sentences.

There are four main problems: prepositional sentences, clauses that begin with whom, this or what, sentences that begin here or there, and questions. 1. If the individual parts of the compound subject are connected by and by and by the other, always use a bural. Shouldn`t Joe be followed by what, not were, since Joe is singular? But Joe isn`t really there, so let`s say we weren`t there. The sentence demonstrates the subjunctive mind used to express hypothetical, desiring, imaginary, or objectively contradictory things. The subjunctive connects singular subjects to what we usually think of as a plural rush. They do NOT apply to other helping verbs as can, could, should, should, can, could, could, would, would, should. Don`t be confused by the word “student”; the subject is each and everyone is always singular Everyone is responsible. In informal writings, none, and both sometimes take on a plural veneer, when these pronouns are followed by a prepositional sentence that begins with.

This is especially true for constructions that ask questions: “Did you read the two clowns on the order?” “Do you both take this seriously?” Burchfield calls this “a conflict between fictitious agreement and real agreement.” * In the present tense, nouns and verbs form the plural in the opposite way: Note: the word dollar is a special case. When we talk about a sum of money, we need a singular, but if we refer to the dollars themselves, a plural abrasing is necessary. If two or more plural subjects are connected by “and”, the verb is plural. Finally, the creation of a question sometimes means that the subject also follows the verb. Identify the subject here, then select the verb that conforms to it (singular or plural). 3. Composite subjects that are related by and always in the plural. Expressions of rupture such as half, part of, a percentage of, a majority of are sometimes singular and sometimes plural, depending on the importance. (The same is true, of course, if everyone, everyone, more, most and some act as subjects.) Sums and products of mathematical processes are expressed in singular and require singular verbs.

The phrase “more than one” (strangely) takes on a singular verb: “More than one student has tried to do so.” Although “Son” accepts a plural verblage under normal circumstances, the author has understood in this case that “Son of the Revolution” is a proper noun that refers to an organization as a whole and not to several specific threads. . . .