Subject Verb Agreement

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Subject Verb Agreement
Men is
Mans are
Man are
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Subject Verb Agreement

• Subjects and verbs in English must agree in
  number
• The man is married.
• The men are married.
• The man and my sister are married.

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Subject Verb Agreement

• Sometimes we make mistakes when the subject has a
  prepositional phrase following it.
• Singular Subjects
• One (of my brothers) is a musician.
• Neither (of my parents) is living.
• Much (of my time) is spent in the library.
• Each (of my brothers) wants his own car.
• Either (of my sisters) is able to baby-sit for
  you tonight.

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Subject Verb Agreement

• Sometimes we make mistakes when the subject has a
  prepositional phrase following it.
• Plural Subjects
• Both (of my parents) are teachers.
• Several (of the teachers) speak my language.
• However
• Some (of the money) was missing (singular).
• Some (of the students) were missing. (plural).

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Subject Verb Agreement
Sometimes we make mistakes when the subject
has a prepositional phrase following it. What
about these? 1) Most of the ice were
melted. 1) Most of the ice was
melted. 2) Most of the ice cubes was
melted. 2) Most of the ice cubes were
melted. 3) A lot of the people was
angry. 3) A lot of the people were
angry.
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Subject Verb Agreement
Sometimes we make mistakes when the subject
has a prepositional phrase following it. What
about these? 1) Your childs are
beautiful. 1) Your children are
beautiful. 2) Some of the class are
at night. 2) Some of the classes are
at night. 3) I have three bedroom in
my home. 3) I have three bedrooms in
my home.
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Subject Verb Agreement
In English there are count and uncountable
nouns. Examples of count nouns
fork(s), tornadoe(s), bottle(s), card(s)
Examples of non-count nouns mail,
money, smoke, homework, garbage
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Subject Verb Agreement
Count or Non-Count underwear
furniture weather
Non-count They are wearing underwear.
Non-count They have a lot of furniture.
Count All the weather is here.
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Subject Verb Agreement
In English there are common irregular plural
nouns Singular
Plural child
children (wo-) man (wo-) men foot
feet self
selves wife
wives person people knife knives
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Subject Verb Agreement

• A countable noun becomes plural following of
  that shows quantity although a non-count noun is
  always singular

singular
Some of your homework is missing.
plural
Some of the assignments are easy.
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Subject Verb Agreement
of phrases

• Some of the A little of the
• Many of the Much of the
• A number of the A lot of the
• One of the Most of the
• Half of the A few of the

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Agreement
Subject Verb Agreement

• Remember to make adjectives such as (this,
  that, these, those)
• agree with the nouns they modify.

singular
plural
these room
these rooms
this rooms
this room
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Practice
Subject Verb Agreement
Before you begin editing your essays, try
some practice exercises.
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Editing
Subject Verb Agreement
Reread your essay and circle all of the nouns.
Using the strategies you have learned in this
lesson, decide why each noun should be singular
or plural. Discuss your decisions with your
classmate(s).