Subject-verb agreement means that your verb must be conjugated, or changed, to fit (or agree) with the subject. Subjects can be singular or plural. Think of singular and plural as mathematical ...

When a compound subject contains “and,” it’s easy to make the verb match: You and a loved one have coverage. By nature, “and” makes singular things plural: Ned is. Nancy is. Ned and ...

In other words, they’re singular and plural at the same time. And since verbs are supposed to agree in number with their subjects — one cat is, two cats are — the roughly 200 collective ...

Let’s start with various forms of disagreement between singular and plural elements in a sentence. 1. “Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are both 34, and neither have been engaged or married yet.” ...

It seems that today, however, the distinction between singular and plural nouns is either being ignored, or the writers never learned the difference. Much too often, plural verbs are being given ...

Dictionaries say "whereabouts" is one of those words that may be used with either a singular or a plural verb. One reference book says the use of a plural verb is 10 times more common in print.

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Among the hardiest of questions is a poser that ought not to be a poser: Does "none" take a singular or plural verb? The New York Times likes it plural: "None of the officials whose actions were ...

necessitating the plural verb. However, if politics is used to denote the ‘science of governance’, it is assigned a singular verb as earlier shown. The nouns News, Mathematics, Physics and ...