ENGLI Class

SH
Teacher: Lic. Diana Carolina Castillo García
E-mail: castillogarcia.dc@gmail.com
 We need our:
 PPT.

 Offprint.
Objective: To
 Notebook.
remember
 Pencil. Simple Present
Tense.
 Good vibes
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Verb
Agreement
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Explanation
 Plurals in English Grammar
To make a noun plural, we
add –s
Singular: girl
Plural: girls
To make a verb plural, we
take away the –s.
Singular: he talks
Plural: they talk
Watch the Verb Endings!

Singular Plural
• I walk • We walk
• You walk • You walk
• He/She/It walk s • They walk
• Joe walk s • Joe and Maria walk
• The girl walk s • The girls walk
Remember there are irregular verbs:
● DO
Singular Plural
○ He does They do
● HAVE
○ She has They have
● BE
○ He is They are
○ She was They were
 Tip for Subject/verb
Agreement
Generally, if the subject doesn’t
end in –S, the verb will.

If the subject does end in –S,

the verb won’t
 No –S on
subject

-S on
verb
The girl dances.
 -S on
subject

The girls dance.

No –S
on verb
Multiple subjects joined by
“and”
● If there are two or more subjects joined by and,
the subject must be plural, so the verb will not get
an “s”.

No –S on
Example
● The boy and the girl dance.
verb
(= They dance.)
Multiple subjects joined by “or”

If there are two or more subjects joined by

or, the verb agrees with the part of the
subject closest to it.

Examples:
●
The professor or the students walk the
halls.
●
The students or the professor walks the
halls.
 Indefinite Pronouns
•Some indefinite pronouns are always singular.
Here are some examples: anyone, everyone,
someone, no one, nobody
•Others can be either singular or plural (all,
some)
• Everybody loves grammar!
• Some people love grammar.
 Relative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns (who/which/that) can be either
singular or plural, depending on the word they refer
to.

○ The student who works hard will succeed.

○ The students who work hard will succeed.

 Helpful hints
 The student, though she had lots of problems in
other schools, finds/find (?) her new class easy.
 The student, though she had lots of problems
in other schools, finds her new class easy.
 The student finds her new class easy.

Sometimes, several words come between

the subject and the verb. Just take out
the phrase in the middle to see
whether or not the subject and verb
agree.
 Prepositional
phrases
The subject can never be part
of a prepositional phrase.
Example
The students in my class study / studies hard.
X
In the sentences below, do the
subjects & verbs agree?
● They goes to the gym after class to work out.
● Harry and his friends wants to see the new movie coming
out this weekend.
● The cat who is meowing at my door wants in.
● Neither the cat nor the dogs likes the new food.
● The mayor as well as his brothers are going to jail.
● Nobody wants to dance.
● The paper or the ruler are in the desk.
Thanks!