1. Subject-Verb Agreement?
● Remember back to our previous
discussions of paragraph and sentence unity
in your writing.
● Singular subjects use singular verbs.
● Plural subjects take plural verbs.

2. Is Versus Are!
● Is v Are
● Hydrogen peroxide is an unstable
compound.
● Characters are not well developed in O
Henry's short stories.

3. ● Pause.
● Take a breath!!!
● Questions?

4. Subject-Verb Agreement!
● When you are dealing with the present
tense, add an "s" to the verb.
● The President has the power to veto
congressional legislation.
● Singular nouns in the third person also
include an "s" on the verb.
● She frequently cites statistics to support her
assertions.

5. Even More Subject-Verb Agreement!
● When dealing with a plural noun, do not add
an "s"
● Experts recommend that dieters avoid salty
processed meat.
● Compound nouns will be determined by
the closet noun to the verb.

6. Modifying Phrase!
● When some kind of modifying phrase
comes between the subject and verb, the
verb will still agree with the subject.
● The sound of the drumbeats builds in
intensity in Eugene O'Neill's play The
Emperor Jones (“of the drumbeats” is a
prepositional phrase. Sound is the subject,
builds is the verb).

7. Subject-Verb Agreement!!!
● Here are some tips for revising subject verb
agreement:
Person
● Find the subject of the sentence.
● Determine if the subject is in the first,
second, or third person.
● Determine the same for the sentence's verb.
● If the subject and verb have the same
person, your sentence is grammatically
correct.

8. Subject-Verb Agreement!
Here are some tips for revising subject verb
agreement:
Number
● Find the sentence's subject.
● Is the subject's number singular or plural?
● Find the sentence's verb: is the number singular
or plural?
● If the subject and verb of the sentence are the
same number, your sentence is grammatically
correct.