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Tips for subject and verb agreement
1) The subject and verb must agree in number:
- Earth is affected by human actions.
- Low developed countries are affected by the actions of high developed countries.
2) Words between the subject and the verb do not affect the agreement:
- The pollution, produced by gasses, is the most difficult issue to control.
3) If there are more than one subject in the sentence, it is considered plural:
- China, the United States, and Russia suffer pollution despite being developed countries.
4) If a sentence has more than one subject, and one of this is singular and the other one
is plural, the verb agreement will be applied with nearest to the verb:
- The plastic bottles or gas produces several quantities of pollution.
5) Titles are considered singular:
- Sustainable cities and communities are one of the UN’s global goals.
6) Collective nouns like herd, crowd, class are considered singulars:
- The class is doing a research about the UN’s global goals.
7) If two infinitives are separated by and they take the plural form of the verb:
- To protect and to solve the global goals aim the United Nations.
8) Indefinite pronouns take always singular form:
- Everyone wants to stop the famine.
9) If a sentence starts with here or there, care needs to be taken to identify the subject and
verb agreement:
- There are 17 global goals.
10) Prepositional phrases between the subject and the verb do not affect the verb agreement:
- The gasses of the pollution kill our lungs.