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S&V Agreement
Subject Verb Agreement, Mr. Potts 3R AP Language class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The indefinite pronouns anyone, everyone, someone, no one, nobody are always | Singular |
| If your sentence compounds a positive and a negative subject and one is plural, | the other singular, the verb should agree with the positive subject. For example, The department members but not the chair have decided not to teach on Valentine's Day. |
| All, and Some are plural when refering to | things that you can count |
| "Kara Wolters, together with her teammates, _________ a formidable opponent on the basketball court." Does Present or Presents go in the blank? | Present, because even though "teammates" is plural, the word presents is used more often when describing a single person. |
| The conjunction or does not conjoin (as and does) when... | when nor or or is used the subject closer to the verb |
| "There is no reason for this." Why is this sentence wrong? | Because the word "is" CANNOT be the subject of a sentence. |
| Verbs in the present tense for third-person, singular subjects (he, she, it and anything those words can stand for) .... | have s-endings. |
| A reflexive pronoun is | a pronoun that is preceded by the noun or pronoun to which it refers |
| singular reflexive pronouns are | myself,yourself,himself ,herself, itself |
| yourselves, ourselves ,themselves are | plural reflexive pronouns |
| Reflexive pronouns have two functions. They act as intensifiers, and... | objects of verbs, verbals (e.g., infinitives), or prepositions when the receiver of the action or the object of the preposition is the same |
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