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Subject-verb Agreement: The Sore Thumb of Grammar
A singular subject demands a singular verb; a plural subject
demands a plural verb. Ah, if it were only that simple. This
power point presentation describes the rule with examples.
More on Subject-Verb Agreement
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
The rules in brief with illustrations.
"The Verb's the Word"
from The Writer's Block by Nancy Lawler Dickhute. The Nebraska Lawyer, July 2001.
This article focuses on eliminating problems with subjects and
their predicates (verbs) with examples from legal writing.
Exercises
Subject-Verb Agreement Exercise 1
Subject-Verb Agreement Exercise 2
Subject-Verb Agreement Exercise 3
Subject-Verb Agreement Exercise 4
Practice
on Nouns and Noncount Nouns |
Usage & Grammar
Subject-Verb
Agreement
Pronoun
References
Apostrophes
Commas
Colons
& Semi-Colons
Spelling
Words that
Sound Alike
Capitalization |
