Subject-Verb Agreement | Learn English Grammar Online

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Are you sometimes wondering whether you should use a singular verb or a plural
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verb with certain nouns? For example 'data' or 'headquarters'?
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Are you unsure what type of verb to use with indefinite pronouns,
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such as 'everybody' or 'someone'?
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Then join me in this lesson for a review of these tricky cases.
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Hello and welcome everyone this is Minoo at Anglo-Link.
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Today we are going to look at the topic of
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subject-verb agreement.
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Often it's quite obvious whether a noun or a pronoun takes a
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singular or a plural verb. 'he is', 'they are', 'Jane works', 'Jane and John work'.
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However there are nouns and pronouns that don't make it so obvious.
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For example, an indefinite pronoun 'everyone'. Is it 'everyone know ...' or 'everyone knows ...'
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Or a noun like 'data', irregular plural, is it 'the data is ...' or 'the data are ...'
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By the end of this lesson, you will have learned whether you should use a
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singular or a plural verb with these tricky nouns and pronouns.
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So when you're ready, we can begin.
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