Quick help: Subject-verb agreement

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Correct example sentence: High levels of air pollution cause damage to the respiratory tract.

Get help with agreement when words come between the subject and verb.

Correct example sentence: Jill's natural ability and her desire to help others have led to a career in the ministry.

Get help with agreement when compound subjects are joined with and.

Correct example sentence: Neither the teacher nor the students were in the lab.

Get help with agreement when compound subjects are joined with or or nor.

Correct example sentence: Each of the furrows has been seeded.

Get help with agreement when the subject is an indefinite pronoun.

Correct example sentence: The board of trustees meets in Denver twice a year.

Get help with agreement when the subject is a collective noun.

Correct example sentence: In the room are a small aquarium and an enormous terrarium.

Get help with agreement when the subject follows the verb.

Subject-verb agreement at a glance

Exercises:

Subject-verb agreement 1

Subject-verb agreement 2

Subject-verb agreement 3

Subject-verb agreement 4