GRAMMAR 02: 02/04/12

sábado, 4 de febrero de 2012

Subject-Verb Agreement

Subjects and verbs must AGREE for example if a subject is singular, the verb must also be singular; if a subject is plural, the verb must also be plural.

EXAMPLES:

My dog bits my shirt
The students sing well
She makes me cry
He works a lot.
The boys talk to me.

In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: nouns ADD an s to the singular form; verbs REMOVE the s from the singular form.

These agreement rules do not apply to verbs used in the simple past tense without any helping verbs.

The agreement rules do, however, apply to the following helping verbs when they are used with a main verb: is-are, was-were, has-have, does-do.

The agreement rules do not apply to has-have when used as the SECOND helping verb in a pair.

They do NOT apply to any other helping verbs, such as can, could, shall, should, may, might, will, would, must.

The subject-verb agreement rules apply to all personal pronouns except I and you, which, although SINGULAR, require PLURAL forms of verbs.

MORE INFORMATION

SHORTCUT

THE PARTS OF THE SPEECH

http://delmylorenaayalagonzalez.blogspot.com/2012/01/parts-of-speech.html

TYPES OF SENTENCES

http://delmylorenaayalagonzalez.blogspot.com/2012/02/types-of-sentences.html

CONJUNCTIONS

http://delmylorenaayalagonzalez.blogspot.com/2012/02/conjunctions.html

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

http://delmylorenaayalagonzalez.blogspot.com/2012/02/subject-verb-agreement.html

NOUNS

http://delmylorenaayalagonzalez.blogspot.com/2012/03/nouns.html

ARTICLES

http://delmylorenaayalagonzalez.blogspot.com/2012/03/articles.html

PRONOUNS

http://delmylorenaayalagonzalez.blogspot.com/2012/03/pronouns.html

QUANTIFIERS

http://delmylorenaayalagonzalez.blogspot.com/2012/03/quantifiers.html

Definition

A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence.

Coordinating Conjunctions

The simple, little conjunctions are called coordinating conjunctions.

For-And-Nor-But-Or-Yet-So.

EXAMPLES:

My mom go shopping and my father watch Tv at home.
She likes the roses or likes the chocolates.
He buys many candies for their family.

Subordinating Conjunctions

A Subordinating Conjunction (sometimes called a dependent word or subordinator) comes at the beginning of a Subordinate (or Dependent) Clause and establishes the relationship between the dependent clause and the rest of the sentence.

after, although, as long as, as though, because, before, even if, even though, if only, in order that, rather than, since, unless, until, when, whenever, where, wherever, while, etc.

EXAMPLES:

Lorena took to the stage as though she had been preparing for this moment all his life.
Because Fatima loved acting, she refused to give up his dream of being in the movies.
Unless we act now, all is lost.

Correlative Conjunctions

Some conjunctions combine with other words to form what are called correlative conjunctions: both... and, not only... but also, neither... or, etc.

EXAMPLES:

Delmy led the team not only in statistics but also by virtue of her enthusiasm.
Freddy said, Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
Whether she win this race or lose it doesn't matter as long as she do her best.