Transcript Subject and verb agreement

 What
is a subject?
 What is a verb?
 What does a sentence need to be complete?
 New
Question:
 What
does subject/verb agreement mean?
 In
a correctly written sentence, the subject
and verb agree in number.
 Singular subjects have singular verbs, and
plural subjects have plural verbs.
 Our
baby sleeps more than ten hours a day.
 Some babies sleep even longer.
A
verb often comes right after its subject.
 The
sealed boxes belong to my brother.
 Sometimes,
the subject and verb are
separated by other words.
A
small bag of potato chips contains 440
calories.
 Bag
is the subject; it needs to agree with
contains.
 The
tomatoes in this salad is brown and
mushy.
 Books
about baseball fills my son’s room.
A
compound subject is made up of two nouns
connected by a joining word. Subjects joined
by and generally take a plural verb.
 John
and Julia go to a restaurant every
night.
 Subjects
are not just people or places—they
can be ideas or things.
 Sometimes, these things may look like verbs.
 Running
and lifting weights are good ways to
keep in shape.
 Fear
and ignorance has a lot to do with
hatred.
 Bananas
and peanut butter taste/tastes good
together.
 My counselor and my English instructor
has/have agreed to write recommendations
for me.
 Forests and lakes surround/surrounds the
campground.
 The cat and the dogs sleep/sleeps curled up
together.
 Kara and her children live/lives in a shelter.