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Lesson 8 - Agreement
AGREEMENT
  1. A singular verb is used with a singular subject.
  2. A plural verb is used with a plural subject.
  3. The verb must agree with the subject.
  4. 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.
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