Subject-Verb Agreement (to be verbs)

Subject-Verb Agreement (to be verbs)

Multiple Select

Warm-Up

Check all of the concrete nouns.

• Odor

• Friendship

• Music

• Glasses

Multiple Select

Warm-Up

Check all of the abstract nouns.

• Maturity

• Confidence

• Paper

• Towel

What happens when you can't find the action word?

•  Sometimes when you read a sentence, there isn’t a regular action word there. What do you do then?

• Look for one of the to be verbs. To be verbs are is, am, are, was, and were.

Am, Is, and Was

• We use the words is, am, and for past tense, was with singular subjects and pronouns. 

  
  

  I am…

  He is..

  She was…

Are and Were

• Are and were are used with plural subjects and pronouns. Were is used to show something that happened in the past.

  
  

  We are…

  They were..

  The baskets were..

  
  

Multiple Choice

Our teacher, Ms. Boyd

, ______________________ absent last Friday.

• is

• are

• am

• was

• were

Multiple Choice

Khalik and Ian_____________

______________ playing

soccer tomorrow.

• is

• are

• am

• was

• were

Multiple Choice

Uncle Jimmy

_______________________ not fee

ling well today.

• is

• are

• am

• was

• were

Multiple Choice

The weather _

________________ rainy

today.

• is

• are

• am

• was

• were

Multiple Choice

We _______________ eating dinner la

st night when th

e doorbell rang.

• is

• are

• am

• was

• were

Multiple Choice

I ________________

______ happy today.

• is

• are

• am

• was

• were