Subject-Verb Agreement

What is a subject?

• What the subject does or did.

• The action part of the sentence.

• Who or what the sentence is about.

• Any noun in the sentence.

What is a predicate?

• It tells what the subject does or did.

• Who or what the sentence is about.

• Any verb in the sentence.

• Any noun in the sentence.

When the noun in the subject is singular, what do you do to the verb?

• Nothing.

• add -s to the verb, even if the subject is "I".

• add -s to the verb, unless the subject is "I"

• Do not add -s to the verb

If the noun in the subject is plural, you should...

• Add -s to the verb, unless the subject is "I"

• Write whatever sounds the best.

• Always add -s

• Do not add -s to the verb.

A simple subject is...

• just the verb in the predicate

• just the noun in the subject

• just the noun in the predicate

• a simple noun