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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 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...

 A Considerable Speck by Robert Frost A speck that would have been beneath my sight On any but a paper sheet so white Set off across what I had written there. And I had idly poised my pen in air To stop it with a period of ink When something strange about it made me think, This was no dust speck by my breathing blown, But unmistakably a living mite With inclinations it could call its own. It paused as with suspicion of my pen, And then came racing wildly on again To where my manuscript was not yet dry; Then paused again and either drank or smelt— With loathing, for again it turned to fly. Plainly with an intelligence I dealt. It seemed too tiny to have room for feet, Yet must have had a set of them complete To express how much it didn't want to die. It ran with terror and with cunning crept. It faltered: I could see it hesitate; Then in the middle of the open sheet Cower down in desperation to accept Whatever I accorded it of fate. I have none of the tenderer-than-thou Collectivist...