Grammar is a necessary part of General Paper, the grammar course will help you improve the clarity of your writing and increases readers' confidence in your ideas. Through this course learn to apply the basic grammar principles so you can avoid making the most common mistakes. Learn about subject-verb agreement, plural verbs and indefinite subjects.
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Subjects and verbs must agree in two ways: number (singular or plural) and person (first, second, or third). These two general rules hold through all the different subject/verb guidelines. As a rule, plural subjects end in -s and plural verbs do not end in -s. Subject-verb agreement is an important grammar tool without which the reader can be confused. Subject-Verb Agreement helps in unifying a sentence and makes it easier to understand for the readers. In this lesson learn about the rules of subject-verb agreement and the examples related to it. The subject is what the sentence or clause is about. The subject is a noun or pronoun and usually performs that action of the verb. Regardless of the singular or plural nature of the words within a title, the title is considered one unit; thus it is a singular noun. Similarly, collective nouns, such as “committee,” function as singular nouns regardless of how many people or things might actually make up the collective noun. Whether an indefinite subject is singular or plural depends on whether the indefinite noun has a singular or plural meaning on its own or based on the rest of the sentence. The standard sentence format in English presents the subject before the verb. In reversed sentences, you need to find the subject and then make sure it matches the verb. To find the subject, fill the following blank with the verb and then ask the question of yourself: who or what _____?
