subject verb agreement
Matching sentence parts
Subject verb agreement is the grammatical principle that a verb must match its subject in number and person.
Singular subjects take singular verbs The dog runs, plural subjects take plural verbs The dogs run.
Errors typically occur when words intervene between subject and verb: The box of chocolates was empty, not were empty.
Also called subject-verb concord.
- singularOne in number
- pluralMore than one
- third person singularSubject neither speaker nor listener
- verbAction-expressing word
- nounWord naming something
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