Grammar Notes

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Subject-Verb Agreement

Verb Tenses

Pronoun & Antecedent

Adjectives & Adverbs

Modification

Parallelism & Comparison

Sentence Structure

Punctuation

Subject-Verb Agreement

1. A verb must always agree with its subject in number

That book's best feature is its beautiful drawings.

("feature" is singular so verb form of "is" must be singular too).

2. Generally ignore prepositional phrases or other words that modify subjects.

The list [of books] is on the table.

("list" is subject. Ignore prep "of books", which is a type of modifier for the subject. So verb s/b singular).

3. Certain pronouns are singular or plural.

Singular: Each, every, everyone, either, neither, someone, no one, anybody, nobody

Plural: many, few, several

Every student is at the party.

Several people were sleeping.