Subject verb agreement
is simple: if the subject of a sentence is singular, then the verb must be
singular, and if the subject of the sentence is plural then the verb of the
sentence must be plural. An s on a verb usually indicates that a verb is
singular, while as s on a noun usually indicates that the noun is plural. (Do
not forget irregular plural of nouns, such as women, children, and people.)
The
boy walks to school.
The
boys walk to school.
In the first example
the singular subject boy requires a singular verb walks. In the second example
the plural subject boys requires a plural verb walk.
Although this might
seem quite simple, there are few situations on the TOEFL when subject verb
agreement can be a little tricky. You should be careful of subject verb
agreement in the following situations: (1) after prepositional phrases (2)
after inverted phrases (3) after certain words, such as anybody, everything, no
one, something, each, and every.
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