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SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT 

In a sentence, the person or thing that performs the action is called the subject, and the action word is called verb. The main verb in a sentence must always agree with its subject in number and person, whether the subject is a noun or pronoun. This is known as subject-verb agreement. 

In a sentence, when the subject is singular, the verb is also singular.
The verb to be changes with  the person and number of the pronoun.
If the subject consists of two or more singular nouns or pronouns joined with and, it takes a plural verb.
When two singular subjects are joined by or, it takes a singular verb.
When two subjects joined by or are of different numbers, the verb agrees in number with the subject that is closest to it.
When two subjects are connected the either...... or or neither......nor the verb agrees with the subject that is placed near the verb.
Words like trousers, scissors, jeans, shorts, glasses/spectacles, shoes, take plural verb.
Words like a pair of trousers, a pair of scissors, a pair of jeans, take singular verbs.


Practice Exercise


Fill in the blanks with correct form of the verb given in the brackets.
  1. Geeta ............ to cooking from her mother. (learn)
  2. Rahul ........... delicious cake. (make)
  3. You ............. good writer. (be)
  4. I ............ planning to write a book for girls. (be)
  5. ......... (be) you go out today?
  6. Why......... you left. (has)
  7. Roshan and Reema ............ good player. (be)
  8. She ........... to dance. (learn )
  9. July ........... the seventh month of the year. (be)
  10. Mumbai , Chennai and Calcutta ............. important ports of India. (be)
  11. Kapil Dev ....... a good cricketer. (be)
  12. Your son ......... shown good progress. ( has)
  13. Fruit ......  good for health. (be)
  14. The news of his death ........... true (be)
  15. My uncle's pen ......... in his pocket.(be)
  16. This pen ........... well. (write)
  17. Those men ......... lazy. (be)
  18. I ........... no car. (has)
  19. We  not ........ enough fruit. (do)
  20. He ........ finished all the milk. (be)
  21. There ......... some boys at the door. (be)
  22. She ............. to richest family of our city. (belong)
  23. Monu ........... money. (waste)
  24. They ...... very strong. (be)
  25. It ......... 6 o'clock now. (be)

Answer:    1.learns   2.makes  3.are  4.am  5.are  6.have   7.are   8.learns   9.is   10.are   11.is   12.has   13.is   14.was   15.is   16.writes   17.are   19.have   20.has   21.are   22.is    23.wastes   24. are   25.is 

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