Hello, friends. Today we are going to learn about a very interesting topic in grammar known

as Subject and Verb agreement. So, before we go and see, what is subject and verb

agreement exactly, let’s see the basic rule that governs this topic. Every verb must agree

with its subject. So, we may know that in one sentence, you may have a single subject, you

may have multiple subjects. Similarly, you may have a single verb or you may have multiple

verbs. The basic rule says every verb must agree with its subject. Which means a singular

subject should have singular verb and a plural subject should have a plural verb. That means

your subject and verb have to agree in number. Now, having said this the subject would

always demand a singular verb and a plural subject would always demand a plural verb.

That’s the basic rule of governing the subject and verb agreement.

Now, let’s see, how would we convert a singular noun into a plural noun. So, to make a noun

plural we would add an ‘s’. The singular noun is ‘girl’ to make it plural we add an ‘s’ and

make it ‘girls’, simple. Similarly, in a verb to make a verb plural, we will take away the ‘s’. So,

the singular verb would say ‘he talks’, plural would then become ‘they talk’. That means the

subject adds the ‘s’ and the verb drops the ‘s’.

We should always remember or try to retain 3 irregular verbs. We all know that verb

basically conveys action or it shows action. So, we will try and retain 3 irregular verbs in both

their forms that is singular as well as plural. So, the first verb that we have is ‘do’. In the

singular form it becomes ‘he does’ and in the plural form it becomes ‘they do’. The next

word is ‘have’, so in the singular form what do you think it will become, correct, ‘he has’ and

in the plural form it becomes ‘they have’. Now we would see the ‘be’ form of the verb. The

‘be’ form will be tested on both the tenses past as well as present. So, in the present tense it

becomes ‘he is’ and in the past tense it becomes ‘she was’. Similarly, for the plural form it

becomes ‘they are’ and in the past tense it becomes ‘they were’. So, we need to remember

these 3 irregular verbs and their usage in grammar. Moving on, how do we identify a

grammatical subject in a sentence?