Contributor: Matthew Baker Subject-verb agreement means that your verb must be conjugated, or changed, to fit (or agree) with the subject. Subjects can be singular or plural. Think of singular and ...

The verb in a sentence is the word that shows action or being. The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that's doing the action, or being something. Hello. I'm Mrs Shaukat and we're going ...

(Correct. Not sacks.) The subjunctive mood question is one of the factors that bred exceptions to the subject-verb agreement in English and we will discuss this more next week.

But though “couple” is the head noun, there’s no rule that says that the head noun gets the verb. In fact, the writer can use any of the nouns in a noun phrase as the subject of a verb.

Rafael, not to mention Jenny, is here. Rafael, together with Jenny, is here. But there’s another coordinating conjunction that causes even more subject-verb-agreement problems: or.

The verb in a sentence is the word that shows action or being. The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that's doing the action, or being something. Hello. I'm Mrs Shaukat and we're going ...