Verb Agreement

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Verb Agreement
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• A verb should agree in number with its subject.
• Two words agree when they have the same number.
• The number of a verb should agree with the number
  of its subject

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Singular Subjects take Singular Verbs

• The lightning fills the sky.
• Jan begins her vacation today.

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Plural Subjects take Plural Verbs

• Cheetahs run fast.
• New families move into our neighborhood often.

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Verb Phrases

• When a sentence contains a verb phrase, the FIRST
  helping verb in the verb phrase agrees with the
  subject.

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• The motor is running.
• The motors are running.
• The girl has been delayed.
• The girls have been delayed.
• Is anyone filling the aquarium?
• Are any students filling the aquarium?

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• The number of a subject is not changed by a
  phrase that follows the subject.
• Example The hero of those folk tales is Coyote.
  (The verb IS agrees with the subject HERO, not
  with TALES.

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• The successful candidate, along with two of her
  aides, has entered the auditorium.
• Scientists from all over the world have gathered
  in France.

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CLASS WORK

• Page 100 Exercise 4 1-10 Exercise 5 1-10