...9 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT RULES FOR SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT RULE 1 – A verb agrees with its subject in number. Singular subjects take singular verbs: The car stays in the garage. The flower smells good. There is an old saying: “Opposites attract.” The rule for singular and plural verbs is just the opposite of the rule for singular and plural nouns. Remember this when you match subjects and verbs. You might guess that stays and smells are plural verbs because they end in s. They aren’t. Both stays and smells are singular verbs. RULE 2 – The number of the subject (singular or plural) is not changed by words that come between the subject and the verb. One of the eggs is broken. Of the eggs is a prepositional phrase. The subject one and the verb is are both singular. Mentally omit the prepositional phrase to make the subject verb-agreement easier to make. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT EXERCISE 1 Direction: Circle the correct verb in each of the sentences below. Check your answers on the following page. 1. Your friend (talk-talks) too much. 2. The man with the roses (look-looks) like your brother. 3. The women in the pool (swim-swims) well. 4. Bill (drive-drives) a cab. 5. The football players (run-runs) five miles every day. 6. That red-haired lady in the fur hat (live-lives) across the street. 7. He (cook-cooks) dinner for his family. 8. The boys (walk-walks) to school every day. 9. The weather on the coast (appear-appears) to be good this weekend. 10. The center on the basketball team (bounce-bounces)...
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...College English Name: ________________________ The 20 Rules of Subject Verb Agreement in Standard English (1-4) 1. Subjects and verbs must agree in number. This is the cornerstone rule that forms the background of the concept. The dog growls when he is angry. The dogs growl when they are angry. 2. Don’t get confused by the words that come between the subject and verb; they do not affect agreement. The dog, who is chewing on my jeans, is usually very good. 3. Prepositional phrases between the subject and verb usually do not affect agreement. The colors of the rainbow are beautiful. 4. When sentences start with “there” or “here,” the subject will always be placed after the verb, so care needs to be taken to identify it correctly. There is a problem with the balance sheet. Here are the papers you requested. Day 1 – Determine whether or not the following sentences are correct. If they are incorrect, make the necessary adjustments. 1. There are extra butter in the refrigerator. 2. My mother, along with the other representatives, are going to the convention. 3. A player on the Vikings are going to sign autographs at the mall this Saturday. 4. My sister eat paste. 5. This Tuesday, John, as well as his friends, is driving to the rock concert. 6. Runners on the team is being tested for performance enhancing drugs. 7. Dad and mom yells at me when I play my music too loud. 8. Here are a plate of Oreo cookies. 9. There are a box for you to pack your things in. 10. Finally, this...
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...The American Trucking Company has recently been experiencing an increase in stolen loads—a loaded tractor/trailer is stolen and the load sold. Loads of merchandise are often worth thousands of dollars, sometimes exceeding the value of the tractor/trailer. American Trucking, while wishing to recover both the load and equipment, seeks a way to locate the tractor/trailer at all times so they can dispatch their security team to retrieve the load before it is sold on the black market (as well as to retrieve the truck/trailer before it is vandalized). They have engaged the services of Truck Locators, a provider of locating services to the trucking industry. Truck Locator’s Truck Finder services is a one-way messaging service that routes messages from the truck on the road to the trucking companies offices. The trucking company is provided with detailed information: GPS location of both the tractor and the trailer, speed of the truck/trailer, whether the trailer doors are open, how much weight is the trailer carrying, etc. Truck Locator’s installs a dedicated hardware unit on the truck and the trailer before the Truck Finder service can be used. Customers generally sign two contracts, one governing the dale of the hardware (devices) and the other providing the provision of the service. Service contracts generally have a duration of 12 months and are billed monthly. Service and devices are sold at standard rates, but discounts are offered depending on the number of units purchased...
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...Teaching Unit: Subject - Verb Agreement © 2000, 1978 Margaret L. Benner All rights reserved. Although you are probably already familiar with basic subject-verb agreement, this chapter begins with a quick review of basic agreement rules. Subjects and verbs must AGREE with one another in number (singular or plural). Thus, if a subject is singular, its verb must also be singular; if a subject is plural, its verb must also be plural. In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: nouns ADD an s to the singular form; verbs REMOVE the s from the singular form. These agreement rules do not apply to verbs used in the simple past tense without any helping verbs. The agreement rules do, however, apply to the following helping verbs when they are used with a main verb: is-are, was-were, has-have, does-do. The agreement rules do not apply to has-have when used as the SECOND helping verb in a pair. They do NOT apply to any other helping verbs, such as can, could, shall, should, may, might, will, would, must. The subject-verb agreement rules apply to all personal pronouns except I and you, which, although SINGULAR, require PLURAL forms of verbs. Now click on the link below to do exercise 1. Link to Exercise 1 The remainder of this teaching unit deals with some more advanced subject-verb agreement rules and with exceptions to...
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...2 Gender 1.3 Number 2 Determiners 2.1 Articles 2.2 Typical use of the definite article 2.3 Typical use of the indefinite article 2.4 The partitive article: du, de l', de la, des 2.5 Use of indefinite and partitive articles after the negative forms ne... pas, ne... jamais, ne... plus, ne... guère 2.6 Omission of the article 2.7 Demonstrative determiners 2.8 Possessive determiners 3 Personal and impersonal pronouns 3.1 Subject pronouns 3.2 Object pronouns 3.3 Stressed pronouns 3.4 Demonstrative pronouns 3.5 Possessive pronouns 4 Adjectives 4.1 Adjectives modifying the noun 4.2 Adjectives which follow verbs or verbal expressions 4.3 Adjectives with complements 4.4 Indefinite and negative noun phrases with adjective complements 4.5 Adjectives used as nouns 4.6 Adjectives used as adverbs 4.7 Masculine and feminine forms of adjectives 4.8 Plural forms of adjectives 4.9 Adjective agreement with nouns 1 1 5 17 23 23 24 29 32 33 34 37 39 40 40 53 71 75 76 78 78 83 84 85 85 86 86 89 91 vi Contents 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 Invariable adjectives Compound adjectives Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives Subjunctive versus indicative in clauses dependent on a superlative adjective Absolute use of the superlative 91 92 93 96 97 98 98 98 101 102 104 104 122 126 126 133 134 135 138 140 142 143 143 147 147 148 149 152 153 154 186 186 186...
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...should help them with criticism 4. Vehemently [ˈviəməntlɪ] Adverb 1. in a vehement manner; 1. He argued with his wife so vehemently that he talked himself hoarse. 5. insulate [ˈɪnsəˌlet, ˈɪnsjə-] Verb 1. protect from heat, cold, noise, etc. by surrounding with insulating material; 1. Asbestos can be used to insulate a cooking stove. 6. mollified [ˈmɔləˌfaɪd] 1. Hagen knew he was being mollified. "Maybe I can help," he said. 7. offender [əˈfɛndɚ] Noun 1. a person who transgresses moral or civil law . The offender apologized when he sobered up 8. scrawny [ˈskrɔni] Adjective 1. having unattractive thinness; 1. A few scrawny chickens were scratching around the yard. Tuesday, Oct. 9th, 2012 1. lending [ˈlɛndɪŋ] Noun 1. disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned 1. The country had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending. 2. whimpered [ˈhwɪmpəd] 1. VERB 动词 抽泣;呜咽;啜泣 If someone whimpers, they make quiet unhappy or frightened sounds, as if they are about to start crying 3. thrash [θræʃ] Noun 1. a swimming kick used while treading water 1. Never mind the side issues, let's get down to brass tacks and thrash out a basic agreement 4. intervene [ˌɪntɚˈvin] Verb 1. get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; 1. When riot broke out, the...
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...if the statement is true, F if is false, then overwrite the underlined and highlighted word/phrase with the right one to make the statement correct. ______ 1. A verb is a word that expresses action, state of being, or the fact that something exists in a given time and which is always found in the predicate of a sentence. ---------- 2. An action verb tells what a subject of the sentence does which may either be visible (physical) or mental. ______ 3. ’Remember’, ‘honor’, ‘prefer’, ‘excel’ and ‘regarded’ are examples of visible (physical) actions verbs. ______ 4. An action verb is intransitive if it directs action toward someone or something named in the same sentence and which can be identified if answer can be found by asking ‘whom?’ or ‘what?’ after the verb. ---------- 5. A helping verb links, or connects, the subject to the predicate and that which implies a state of being or condition for the subject. ______ 6. Little words such as ‘am’, ‘is’, ‘are’, ‘was’, ‘were’, ‘be’, ‘been’ and some seemingly action verbs such as ‘seems’, ‘feels’, ‘tastes’ are examples of linking verbs. ______ 7.Auxiliary verbs accompany the main verb, helping out to understand what specific action is taking place, but alone, they do not tell us very much. II. Identification. A. Direction: Underline the verb in each item; and on the lines to the left, write T for transitive or I for intransitive. (5 pts.) ________ 1. They searched for hours, but there was no sign of her...
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...sire the flower; When Zephyr also has with his sweet breath, Filled again, in every holt and heath, The tender shoots and leaves, and the young sun His half-course in the sign of the Ram has run, And many little birds make melody That sleep through all the night with open eye (So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage) Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage, And palmers to go seeking out strange strands, To distant shrines well known in distant lands. And specially from every shire's end Of England they to Canterbury went, The holy blessed martyr there to seek Who helped them when they lay so ill and weak It happened that, in that season, on a day In Southwark, at the Tabard, as I lay 5 10 15 20 Glossary bifil bifel, bifil verb blisful blisful adj. corages corages noun, pl. croppes croppes noun droghte droghte noun eek eek, eke adv. ferne halwes ferne halwes...
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...that used correct grammar. These sentences had three to four choices with different forms of grammar such as, who/whom, a/an, and I/me. Now I thought this test would be a breeze, unfortunately I was wrong. I thought I would do pretty well and knew what I needed to know about how and when to use certain words with certain phrases. I did not. While taking this test I realized I did not know as much as I thought and needed to study my grammar. I learned while taking this test that I use the wrong form of grammar when I write and when I speak. I am probably going to make a few mistakes writing this paper. Hopefully I won’t, or at least not too many. I knew that when you are referring to a sentence that has a subject and a verb agreement you use the singular verb with a singular subject, i.e.; the subject is the word list . The list is on the table. Although there can be many things on the list itself, list is singular and is the subject of the sentence, therefore it will use the singular adverb is instead of the plural are. I learned that when using neither/nor you have to pay attention to the noun or pronoun that the word neither/nor is the closest to. The neither/nor thing always gets me confused, but now that I have learned this rule I can pay more attention to the nouns or pronouns and choose the correct sentence. I also knew that with a/an, a is used only when the word following starts with a continent and an is used when the following word starts with a vowel. There...
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...2. Comma Usage a. https://awc.ashford.edu/grammar-punctuation-commas.html 3. Mechanical Errors a. https://awc.ashford.edu/grammar-punctuation-quotation-marks.html 4. Comma Splices a. https://awc.ashford.edu/grammar-errors-run-ons-and-comma-splices.html 5. Subject and Verb Agreement a. https://awc.ashford.edu/grammar-errors-subject-verb-agreement-tips.html Reflect on the tone of your writing. Do you appear cold, warm, or friendly in all of the right places? I felt as if I came off warm and friendly in my essay. Does your tone work for your audience and purpose? Yes it does. (Chapter 9.3) See this website for further help. Look for connotations. Are they accurate? Are they overly emotional? Are they no connotations in my essay? There were no connotations that I came across. Look for trigger words that may suggest racism, sexism or offensive language, and correct. See this website for further explanation. I didn’t find any trigger words in my essay. Look for words that can be simplified. Yes there were words in my essay that could be simplified and I change them. Look for words that can be made more specific. I didn’t find and words that could be more specific. Look for verbs that could be more action specific. I did find some of the words and they were changed to make my essay better. Examine the transitions (furthermore, next, last year, etc.). Are they accurate and are they in the right places? Should you add more? In my first draft I did have issues...
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...HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vii Organization 1 Clarity 11 Word Choice 21 Mechanics 39 Revising, Editing, and Proofreading 55 Untimed Essay Writing Strategies 67 Timed Essay Writing Strategies 85 Sample Essay Prompts and Essays 97 Resources 111 CONTENTS HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS v Introduction n your preparations for college, you may find yourself facing a handful of high-stakes essays. Your college application requires at least one, and the SAT requires another. Depending upon the high school you attend, or the state you reside in, you may need to write an exit essay, or take the Regents Exam. This book includes specific strategies to help you write great essays, no matter which type you write. In contrast to basic writing guides that contain plenty of information you don’t need, How to Write Great Essays focuses on the topics most important to you now. You won’t find a comprehensive guide to mechanics, but instead you will get short but thorough lessons on the most common errors made in grammar, spelling, usage, and how to prevent and correct these errors. Every chapter is designed to relate directly to your essay, giving you the knowledge and the know-how you need to succeed. The book is divided into seven chapters, with the first five covering different aspects of the writing process: I Introduction ...
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...digunakan untuk menunjukkan nama orang, tempat, hal, benda mati/ hidup, kualitas, gagasan, dll. Noun merupakan salah satu bagian dari parts of speech yang merupakan salah satu elemen dalam grammar bahasa inggris (tata bahasa inggris). Bentuk-bentuk Nouns 1. Concrete Nouns Concrete nouns yaitu kata benda yang berwujud, dapat dilihat atau disentuh. Contohnya: gold, iron, table, chair, dog, cat, book, pencil, pen, car, etc. Contoh kalimat: I bought a new book. She washes her car every afternoon. He borrows my pencil. I really love this cat. The chair in my room is broken. 2. Abstract Nouns Abstract nouns yaitu kata benda yang tak dapat dilihat atau di sentuh. Contohnya: agreement, kindness, statement,honesty, complaint, etc. Contoh kalimat: Thank you for your kindness. His statement is very explicit We have new agreement with our client from Dubai. I appreciate your honesty, you are a loyal man. I have a complaint from my customer. Macam-macam Nouns 1. Proper Nouns (Kata Benda Nama Diri) Contohnya: Adam, Surabaya, Medan, New York, Miami, New Orleans, Detroit, etc. Contoh kalimat: I go to Surabaya twice a week. New York is a big city. I visit my grandmother in New Orleans today. She gives Adam a new car. They have lived in Detroit for 4 years. 2. Common Nouns (Kata Benda Umum) Contohnya: stone (batu), iron (besi), diamond (berlian), sand (pasir), water (air), etc. Contoh kalimat: I hit that guy with a stone. We need more iron for producing stuff. My mother buys a diamond for...
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...COM 155 Entire Course (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com COM 155 Week 1 DQS COM 155 Week 1 Assignment Sentence Structure Review- Appendix B COM 155 Week 2 Assignment: Verb Practice COM 155 Week 2 DQs COM 155 Week 3 DQs COM 155 Week 3 Assignment Identifying Errors in Writing- Appendix D COM 155 Week 4 Assignment: Sentence Correction and Changes in Writing COM 155 Week 4 DQs COM 155 Week 5 Assignment: Pronoun Practice COM 155 Week 5 DQs COM 155 Week 6 Assignment: Review – Adjectives, Adverbs, and Comparisons COM 155 Week 6 DQs COM 155 Week 7 Assignment: Paragraphs and Topic Sentences COM 155 Week 7 DQs COM 155 Week 8 Assignment: Summary, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation COM 155 Week 8 DQs ----------------------------------------------------------- COM 155 Week 1 Assignment Sentence Structure Review- Appendix B (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 1. Assignment: Sentence Structure Review • Resource: Appendix B • Read Appendix B. • Review the eight sentences. • Identify which of the four errors, if any, is present in each sentence. • Rewrite the sentence so that it is a grammatically correct sentence. Post your assignment as a Microsoft® Word attachment in the Assignments link by Week One Day 6 ----------------------------------------------------------- COM 155 Week 1 DQS (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Discussion...
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...Subject-Verb Agreement Basic Principle: Singular subjects need singular verbs; plural subjects need plural verbs. My brother is a nutritionist. My sisters are mathematicians. See the section on Plurals for additional help with subject-verb agreement. The indefinite pronouns anyone, everyone, someone, no one, nobody are always singular and, therefore, require singular verbs. • Everyone has done his or her homework. • Somebody has left her purse. Some indefinite pronouns — such as all, some — are singular or plural depending on what they're referring to. (Is the thing referred to countable or not?) Be careful choosing a verb to accompany such pronouns. • Some of the beads are missing. • Some of the water is gone. On the other hand, there is one indefinite pronoun, none, that can be either singular or plural; it often doesn't matter whether you use a singular or a plural verb — unless something else in the sentence determines its number. (Writers generally think of none as meaning not any and will choose a plural verb, as in "None of the engines are working," but when something else makes us regard none as meaning not one, we want a singular verb, as in "None of the food is fresh.") • None of you claims responsibility for this incident? • None of you claim responsibility for this incident? • None of the students have done their homework. (In this last example, the word their precludes the use of the singular verb. Some indefinite pronouns are particularly...
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...PAREF Springdale School J. Solon St. Lahug, Cebu City |English 6 Scope and Sequence | | | | |Year Level: Grade Six |Prepared by: Michael C. Yap | | | | |Subject/Topic Areas: English |Academic Year : 2015 – 2016 | |FIRST QUARTER | |UNIT TOPICS IN ORDER TO BE TAUGHT |RESOURCES ...
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