I recently fielded questions about two subject-verb agreement errors that readers noticed in ... A Word, Please: A singular way to confuse verb agreement . By June Casagrande . Jan. 18, 2013 3:07 ...

Subject-verb agreement means that your verb must be conjugated, or changed, to fit (or agree) with the subject. Subjects can be singular or plural. Think of singular and plural as mathematical ...

A singular subject like “cat” pairs with a different verb form than a plural subject like “cats.” That’s plain old agreement. Nothing notional about it.

As a result, the singular-for singular, plural-for-plural subject-verb agreement rule may become challenged. Consider words such as couple, class, community, society and family: The class is large ...

Watch: Subject - verb agreement Back to top. Top tip. When the subject and the verb match, we say they ... You need to choose a singular form of the verb to match the singular subject.

As an example, complainants to the ABC often present subject-verb agreement as some inviolable tenet, but such a view ignores that singular-plural agreement is found all over the world, from ...

Usually, it is said that once you have either…or and neither…nor, you opt for the singular verb: Either Ade or Uche comes early. Neither Ade nor Uche comes early.

You need to choose a singular form of the verb to match the singular subject. Look at the table below to see how play is used with different subjects. Most verbs follow the same pattern as this verb.