This entry provides the rules and examples for subject-verb agreement under a variety of situations such as with collective nouns, inverted subjects, compound subjects, indefinite pronoun subjects, and when a phrase or clause separates the subject and verb.

Concepts

compound subjects, collective nouns, subject-verb agreement

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Additional Tags

indefinite pronoun subjects, phrase or clause between subject and verb, inverted subjects, online writing support, towson university, towson university, writing support program, towson university: online writing support: usage - subject-verb agreement

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

RST.11-12.4 RST.9-10.4