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Subject Verb Agreement Part 1

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Subject Verb Agreement Subject-verb agreement plays a pivotal role in crafting well-structured and grammatically accurate English, serving as the cornerstone of effective communication. It is actually the foundation stone on which accurate English is constructed. If you are unaware of this basic grammatic principle, you are liable to commit unpardonable grammatical mistakes leading to a very poor English in writing and speaking. A student must be made aware of this principle from the primary level of learning English. This principle is also known as the Rule of Concord. According to this rule a singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject takes a plural verb. You can understand this principle from the example given below:- Read the following sentence carefully:- He is writing an essay. ( In this sentence, you can see that 'He' is singular and 'He' takes a singular verb that is 'is' but suppose your teacher asks you to replace 'He' with ...

The Interior of an English Sentence, Subject, Verb, Object

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The Interior of an English Sentence Subject, Verb and Object in an English sentence The introduction to the parts of an English sentence is very important with a view to studying English grammar. The whole of English grammar is based on this basic information about an English sentence. Generally, an English sentence is divided into two parts namely Subject and Predicate. e.g. the following sentence:- My brother has made a new model of an airplane.   In the above sentence " My brother " is Subject and remaining part after the subject is  predicate. My brother = Subject. has made a new model of airplane  = Predicate Definition of subject A subject is a word or a phrase about which the sentence is written or spoken. Definition of Predicate A predicate is information about the subject. However, in such a division, predicate remains too much loaded with information. That is why, a sentence is divided into three parts namely Subject, Verb and Object with a view to breaking...