Subject-Verb Agreement


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In today's lesson we continue our unit on verbs. 

Subject-Verb Agreement and 'who'

In statements and questions, who, whomever and whoever require a 3rd person singular verb form.

  • Simple Present Tense, Positive:
     Who wants to go?

  • Simple Present Tense, Negative:
    Who doesn't     make mistakes?

  • Present Perfect, Negative:
    Who hasn't     made a mistake?

  • Simple Present Tense, Negative:
    Whoever wants     to be put on the mailing list should sign here.

everybody, everyone, everything, nobody, nothing

In statements and questions, everybody, everyone, everything, nobody and nothing require a 3rd person singular verb form.

  • Everybody looks forward to Friday night.

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Now it's time for Editing Practice, Verbs Chapter Review.
After these review quizzes, we move on to modals.

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