SubjectVerb Agreement

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Subject-Verb Agreement
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Making subjects and verbs agree

• This is a fairly simple idea the subject and
  verb of a sentence must agree in __________. This
  means if you have a ____________subject you must
  have a ______________verb, and if you have a
  _______________ subject you must have a
  ____________ verb.

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Endings

• What is interesting about the way a noun ends vs.
  the way a verb ends in
• Singular form
• Plural form

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What do you do when the subject and verb arent
next to each other in the sentence?
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What do you do if the subject is a collective
noun?
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There are some special words that require our
attention
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Compound subjects

• Heres the tricky part.
• What do you do when you have more than one
  subject that share a verb?
• Is the verb automatically plural?
• Should it be singular?
• What does it depend on?

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• Rightit depends on the conjunction joining the
  compound subject.
• AND BOTHAND
• OR EITHEROR NEITHERNOR

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QUESTIONS???