Subject Verb Agreement | English Lesson | Common Grammar Mistakes

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT is one of the most common mistakes that English learners make! It's so easy to forget that the verb form in English sentences changes, depending on the subject!
- I AM hungry...
- She IS thirsty...
- They ARE fighting...
- We HAVE been travelling
- It HAS been so long.
- She DOESN'T know...
- You DON'T know...
- They LIKE to travel.
- She LIKES to travel.

This English lesson will help you to review subject-verb agreement rules and fix your English grammar mistakes!

I will also explain how these rules work in more complicated sentences. For example: sentences where the subject is a noun phrase, or where the subject and the verb are separated by a relative clause.

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00:00 Introduction
01:30 Subject verb agreement problems
02:40 Plurals
03:56 Third-person
04:32 Auxiliary verb
05:30 Modal verbs
07:00 Indefinite pronouns
07:23 Compound subjects
09:15 Group nouns
11:19 Finding the subject

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4:44 Auxiliary verb
5:30 Modal Verb
7:02 Indefinite pronoun
9:30 Group nouns

[gannu]

Read it to clear your doubts!!!

1. If the subject is singular, the verb must be singular too.
2. If the subject is plural, the verb must also be plural.
3. When the subject of the sentence is composed of two or more nouns or pronouns connected by and, use a plural verb.
4. When there is one subject and more than one verb, the verbs throughout the sentence must agree with the subject.
5. When a phrase comes between the subject and the verb, remember that the verb still agrees with the subject, not the noun or pronoun in the phrase following the subject of the sentence.
6. When two or more singular nouns or pronouns are connected by "or" or "nor, " use a singular verb.
7. When a compound subject contains both a singular and a plural noun or pronoun joined by "or" or "nor, " the verb should agree with the part of the subject that is closest to the verb. This is also called the rule of proximity.
8. The words and phrases "each, " "each one, " "either, " "neither, " "everyone, " "everybody, " "anyone, " "anybody, " "nobody, " "somebody, " "someone, " and "no one" are singular and require a singular verb.
9. Uncountable nouns take a singular verb.
10. Some countable nouns in English such as earnings, goods, odds, surroundings, proceeds, contents, and valuables only have a plural form and take a plural verb.
11. In sentences beginning with "there is" or "there are, " the subject follows the verb. Since "there" is not the subject, the verb agrees with what follows the verb.
12. Collective nouns are words that imply more than one person but are considered singular and take a singular verb. Some examples are "group, " "team, " "committee, " "family, " and "class."
However, the plural verb is used if the focus is on the individuals in the group. This is much less common.

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