Agreement Subject-Verb Pronoun-Antecedent

Agreement of Subject and Verb Definition: A verb agrees in number with its subject. What’s a verb? What’s number mean in this context? What’s a subject?

Agreement of Subject and Verb The rule: Singular subjects take singular verbs What is a singular subject? What is a singular verb?

Agreement of Subject and Verb The rule: Plural subjects take plural verbs What is a plural subject? What is a plural verb?

Agreement of Subject and Verb The number of a subject is usually not determined by a word in an intervening phrase or intervening clause What is an intervening phrase? What’s an intervening clause?

Subject-Verb Agreement The boy plays well together with other children.

Subject-Verb Agreement The boys play well together with other children.

Subject-Verb Agreement The preschool boys on the merry go round play well together.

Subject-Verb Agreement Exercise 1 on page 580: Identifying Subjects and Verbs That Agree in Number During the colonial period, only women of means made quilts; however, by the mid-nineteenth century, women throughout the United States (was making, were making) quilts. Write out sentences. Underline the subject that shows agreement with the verb. Label S for singular; label P for plural.