I recently fielded questions about two subject-verb agreement errors that readers noticed in the media.

Singular subjects take singular verbs like “is.” We call this subject-verb agreement, and it’s often so obvious that there’s no need to worry about it.

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 ...

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.

One of the fundamental principles of English grammar is that the subject must agree with the verb used with it. This is particularly in terms of the number – whether singular or plural.

The sentence supposedly violated grammatical agreement (sometimes called subject-verb agreement). Because scenes is a plural noun, the reasoning runs, the verb in the sentence should be plural, too.

When the subject of a sentence is singular, that means there is only one person or thing doing the action or being something. You need to choose a singular form of the verb to match the singular ...

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 ...