subject-verb agreement
Noun-predicate number matching
Subject-verb agreement is the grammatical principle that a verb must match its subject in number and person.
Singular subjects take singular verbs; plural subjects take plural verbs: The dog runs but The dogs run.
Agreement errors often occur when words intervene between subject and verb: The box of chocolates was [not were] on the table.
- hypercorrectionError from excessive correctness
- conjugationVerb form variation system
- verb formInflected action word
- tenseStrained or nervous
- singularOne in number
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