Subject-Verb Agreement

Subject-Verb Agreement

Concordancia entre Sujeto y Verbo

Subject and Predicate (Verb)

• Every sentence in English has a SUBJECT and VERB in that order.

• Cada oración en inglés tiene un SUJETO y un VERBO en ese orden.

Subject - Main noun (person, place, thing, or idea); doer of the action.

Subjecto: sustantivo principal (persona, lugar, cosa o idea); hacedor de la acción

• Sally eats apples.

• Elizabeth and Marcus don’t like each other.

Predicate (verb) =Main Action

Predicado (verbo) = Acción principal

• Sally eats apples.

• •Lily and Roger play football in the park.

Noun Phase/Frase Sustantiva

The poor thing was exhausted.

No one wants to leave.

Open Ended

Practice: Identify the Subject

Kayla and Betty laughed loudly

Open Ended

Practice: Identify the Subject

Mr. Wei loves teaching.

Open Ended

Practice: Identify the Subject

I will call you tonight.

Open Ended

Practice: Identify the Subject

I will call you tonight.

Predicate (Verb)/Predicado (verbo)

• The simple predicate is the main verb in the sentence.

• El predicado simple es el verbo principal de la oración.

• Simon cried.

• My dog eats tacos.

Forgettable Verbs.

Are you leaving now?

• In questions, the predicate can be split.

• En las preguntas, el predicado se puede dividir.

•The rain stopped, so we can go home

• In compound sentences, each clause has its own simple subject and simple predicate.

• En oraciones compuestas, cada cláusula tiene su propio sujeto simple y su propio predicado simple.

One of the boys walks the fastest.

• One=Subject, Of the boys=Prepositional Phrase

• •One=Third Person Singular (Substituting “it”)

The following nouns SUBSTITUTE a third person singular pronoun

• Los siguientes sustantivos SUSTITUYEN un pronombre de tercera persona del singular.

• anyone, someone, no one

• each, one, everyone

• everybody, nobody, somebody

NONE and ANY are generally singular

• NINGUNA y CUALQUIERA son generalmente singulares

• None of us is going to the party.

• Any of the girls was free.

Several, Both, Few, Many, Couple

• These pronouns are exceptions. They agree with plural verbs.

• Estos pronombres son excepciones. Concuerdan con los verbos en plural.

• Several students are helping each other.

Open Ended

Choose the correct PREDICATE(Elija el predicado correcta)

1.After practice, my teammates and I (go/goes) to get pizza.

Open Ended

Choose the correct PREDICATE(Elija el predicado correcta)

2. I cannot (do/does) my homework without music playing

Open Ended

Choose the correct PREDICATE(Elija el predicado correcta)

3. Mr. Wei's tests (make/makes) me nervous.

Open Ended

Choose the correct PREDICATE(Elija el predicado correcta)

4. I (has/have) to go to the store because she (need/needs) eggs.

Multiple Choice

It ____ a long time to become a doctor.

• take

• takes

Multiple Choice

We usually ____ the dishes after dinner.

• do

• does

Multiple Choice

Kathy ____ TV everyday after work.

• watch

• watches

Multiple Choice

The children ____ at 7 a.m. everyday.

• get up

• gets up

Multiple Choice

The little boy ____ when he ____ down.

• cry / fall

• cries / falls

Multiple Choice

She _____ home if she _____ time.

• drive / has

• will drive / has

• will drive / have

• will drive / had

Multiple Choice

Do you think the kittens or the puppy (is, are) cuter?

• are

• is

Multiple Choice

The actor and actress (smile/smiles) and (wave/waves) at the crowd. 

• smile and wave
• smiles and waves
• smile and waves
• smiles and wave

Multiple Choice

Some of the books on the table ____ to me.

What is the subject of this sentence?

• some

• books

• table

• me