subject-verb
Sentence core relationship
Subject-verb describes the relationship between a sentence's subject and its main verb, particularly regarding agreement in number and person.
A singular subject takes a singular verb; a plural subject takes a plural verb: The dog barks versus The dogs bark.
Subject-verb agreement errors are common when words intervene between subject and verb: The box of chocolates was [not were] on the table.
Shared position between parties
- conjugationVerb form variation system
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- clauseProvision in agreement
- syntaxRules for arranging words
sentence · nominative · tense · inflection · parsing · concord · person · number
Request for information
- interrogativeAsking in nature
- auxiliaryGiving additional support
- frontingBeing at the forefront
- emphasisStress given to something
negation · conditional · literary · formal · stylistic · word order · hypothetical · neither
Central essential portion
- basicFundamental in nature
- simpleFree of complexity
- kernelSeed or essential core
- fundamentalForming the base
essential · minimal · backbone · foundation · pattern · template · construction · framework
agreement
Shared position between parties
- conjugationVerb form variation system
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- clauseProvision in agreement
syntax · sentence · nominative · tense · inflection · parsing · concord · person · number · singular
question
Request for information
- interrogativeAsking in nature
- auxiliaryGiving additional support
- frontingBeing at the forefront
emphasis · negation · conditional · literary · formal · stylistic · word order · hypothetical · neither · nor
core
Central essential portion
fundamental · essential · minimal · backbone · foundation · pattern · template · construction · framework · building block
- sentence structuresimple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, compound-complex, declarative
- word orderword order, sentence structure, linearization
- syntaxsentence, noun, adjective, object, phrase
subject-verbergative-absolutive
Grammar where intransitive subjects pattern with objects
subject, verb, subjects, subjected, subjecting, subjection, subjective, subjectively, subjectivity