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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.
FRAGMENTS As it is known, a sentence is composed by a subject and a verb. When a word group lacks a subject or a verb and does not express a complete thought, it is known as a fragment. To identify a fragment, it is just needed to look for the miss of the subject or the verb; however, there are some types of fragments that are written with a subject and a verb. In order to understand more about how to identify a fragment, you should study the most common types of fragments that people used. Dependent-word fragment. -ing and to fragments. Added-detail fragments. Missing subject fragments Missing auxiliary verb fragments.
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