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Contributor: Linda Price. Lesson ID: 10106
This lesson are about subject-verb agreement. I hopes you learns how to use subject-verb agreement to avoid writing or speaking strange-sounding sentences like these! Learn from games and journaling!
Peter and John is tall, but Mary and Susan is really tall.
Sometimes, when we write sentences, they seem a little weird. This can be for many different reasons, but one of the most common is that our subjects and verbs don't agree.
In many languages, subjects and verbs agree in number and gender, but in English, they only agree in number.
In English, subjects are the nouns (or pronouns) that perform the action. The verbs are the action. They must agree in number.
So if you have a singular subject, the verb must also be singular. If the subject is plural, then the verb must be plural.
Read the following pairs of sentences.
Those are pretty easy examples; the correct sentence is the first in each pair.
Here are some more resources for studying subject-verb agreement.
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