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Subject-Verb Agreement Basics

This document reviews basic subject-verb agreement rules, noting that subjects and verbs must agree in number, with singular subjects taking singular verbs and plural subjects taking plural verbs. It also discusses how compound nouns can function as compound subjects, sometimes posing special challenges for subject-verb agreement. Finally, it provides an example of a compound subject joined by "and" that takes a plural verb despite having two singular parts.

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Subject-Verb Agreement Basics

This document reviews basic subject-verb agreement rules, noting that subjects and verbs must agree in number, with singular subjects taking singular verbs and plural subjects taking plural verbs. It also discusses how compound nouns can function as compound subjects, sometimes posing special challenges for subject-verb agreement. Finally, it provides an example of a compound subject joined by "and" that takes a plural verb despite having two singular parts.

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Examples of Subject-Verb Agreement

lthough you are probably already familiar with basic subject-verb agreement, this
chapter begins with a quick review of basic agreement rules.

Subjects and verbs must AGREE with one another in number (singular or
plural). Thus, if a subject is singular, its verb must also be singular; if a subject is
plural, its verb must also be plural.

In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: nouns ADD
an s to the singular form; verbs REMOVE the s from the singular form.

Compound nouns can function as a compound subject. In some instances,


a compound subject poses special problems for the subject-verb agreement
rule (+s, -s).

However, instead of using two sentences (as above), we may choose to give
the above information in one sentence.

This sentence makes use of a compound subject (two subject nouns joined
by and), illustrating a new rule about subject-verb agreement.

Although each part of the compound subject is singular (ranger and camper),
taken together (joined by and), each one becomes a part of a plural structure
and, therefore, must take a plural verb (see) to agree in the sentence.

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