Mayor Carlson, along with his deputies, plan to visit the memorial. Mayor Carlson, along with his deputies, plans to visit the memorial. Which is right? Plan or plans? And, more important, why is this ...

Philips are in the house. Kunle and Kelvin has not eaten. The make-up artiste as well as her friend are cool and calm. Neither Kunle nor the twins is in the class. I pray he comes early. One of the ...

Pop quiz. Which is correct? “The dogs are outside” or “The dogs is outside.” I don’t even have to hear your answer to give you an A. Anyone reading an English-language newspaper surely knows that ...

A sentence in the active voice typically has the formation of Subject Verb Object SVO. The verb needs to be in agreement with the subject for proper grammar formation. We have certain rules to ...

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In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

Some keen-eared Radio National listeners recently took issue with the following sentence, delivered on a book review program: "There's heartbreaking scenes in Murakami's new novel." It's not that the ...

Last week I discussed subject-verb agreement. Many of you wrote and asked about sports teams, particularly sports teams whose names don’t end in “s”: are they considered singular or plural? Would you ...

Huddleston and Pullum (2005) write “the verb agrees with the subject” (p. 31), and for quantificational nouns “the form of the verb depends on the … NP [noun phrase] that is complement to the ...

This paper deals with the relationship between subject agreement and extracted subjects. In some languages (local) extraction of the subject triggers the Anti-Agreement Effect (AAE), whereby the verb ...

However, there are many types of nouns and noun phrases in English, and it can be difficult to know if a particular noun takes a singular verb (such as DOES / HAS / AM / IS ) or a plural verb (DO / ...