Lesson 8 - Agreement

AGREEMENT A singular verb is used with a singular subject. A plural verb is used with a plural subject. The verb must agree with the subject. More subject-verb agreement to remember. Agreement is the condition that one word or a sentence part must agree with an earlier word, phrase, or clause.  Put simply, a subject must agree with its verb in number. Number means singular or plural. A singular subject refers to one person, place, thing, or idea while a plural refers to more of each of them. EXAMPLE: My uncle has bushy eyebrows. They are running downstairs. In the two sentences, the noun (=uncle) and pronoun (=they) are called the subjects. The word uncle is a singular subject. The verb used with the subject must therefore be singular (=has). The subject they is plural. The verb (=are) used with the plural subject is plural too.