{"id":8883,"date":"2016-03-23T20:46:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T20:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2016-04-04T15:10:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:10:34","slug":"english-review-of-verb-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/2016\/03\/23\/english-review-of-verb-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"English Review of Verb Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview<\/h3>\n

Verbs should agree with their subjects in person and number.\u00a0 It is also important to determine whether the verb is active or passive. Many verbs in English have different forms to indicate tense.\u00a0 While most verbs are regular, some are irregular and can cause problems.<\/p>\n

Subject-Verb Agreement<\/h3>\n

If the subject of the sentence is singular, the verb should have a singular form, such as in the sentence, \u201cThe book sits on the table.\u201d\u00a0 Similarly, if the subject is plural, the verb should have a plural form, such as in the sentence, \u201cThe books sit on the shelf.\u201d\u00a0 Sometimes it is difficult to tell if the subject is singular or plural.\u00a0 For example, compound subjects joined by the word and<\/strong> are plural, such as in the sentence, \u201cMary and Anne swim on the swim team.\u201d\u00a0 However, if a prepositional phrase comes between a singular subject and the verb, the verb is still singular to agree with its subject, even if the object of the prepositional phrase is plural.\u00a0 For example, in the sentence, \u201cThe report about conditions in the lakes and rivers describes causes of pollution,\u201d the subject is the singular word report<\/strong>, rather than the plural\u00a0conditions<\/strong>, lakes<\/strong> or rivers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Active and Passive Verbs<\/h3>\n

When verbs are active, the subject performs the action, such as \u201cThe rain fell in torrents.\u201d\u00a0 When verbs are passive, the subject receives the action, such as \u201cThe ball was caught by the outfielder.\u201d\u00a0 Notice that often sentences in passive voice are wordier than sentences in active voice, and can be recast.\u00a0 For example, \u201cA possible clue to the murderer\u2019s identity was found by the detective\u201d can be quickly recast as \u201cThe detective found a possible clue to the murderer\u2019s identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Agreement of Verb Tenses<\/h3>\n

In English, verb tenses are indicated by different forms or inflections of the verb or by a change in the auxiliary verb forms. A verb may have different forms in the present tense and the past tense, such as \u201cSue practices the piano every day,\u201d and \u201cYesterday Sue practiced the piano.\u201d The difference between present and future tense is often expressed by change in auxiliary verb forms, as in the sentence, \u201cIn the future, astronauts will go to Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Regular and Irregular Verbs<\/h3>\n

Many verb forms are regular, so that the past tense is formed by adding \u2013ed to the present tense, such as play and played, pay and paid, look and looked.\u00a0 However, others are irregular, and can cause spelling problems.\u00a0 For example, the present tense of break is break, past is broke, and future is broken, the present tense of rise is rise, past is rose, and future is risen, and the present tense of grow is grow, past is grew and future is grown.<\/p>\n

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Overview Verbs should agree with their subjects in person and number.\u00a0 It is also important to determine whether the verb is active or passive. Many verbs in English have different forms to indicate tense.\u00a0 While most verbs are regular, some are irregular and can cause problems. Subject-Verb Agreement If the subject of the sentence is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3899,3898,3302,3340],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-and-grammar","tag-active-and-passive-voice","tag-regular-and-irregular-verbs","tag-subject-verb-agreement","tag-verb-tense"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}