Subject-Verb Agreement

subject verb agreement  Subject-verb agreement This is one of those questions of subject-verb agreement that grammarians and linguists love to disagree about, and the answer you will Subject-verb agreement is matching a singular subject with singular verb or a plural subject with a plural verb Subject-verb agreement errors occur when

If, in contrast, the singular subject is closer, the verb will agree with it: The Senate and the tribunes or, earlier, the Senate alone is seen to have The basic rule of sentence agreement is simple: A subject must agree with its verb in number Number means singular or plural ”

This handout gives you several guidelines to help your subjects and verbs agree 1 When the subject of a sentence is composed of two or more nouns or This sentence requires the plural form “are” Note: If the two parts of your compound subject are referring to the