2.  What is a subject?  What is a verb?  What does a sentence need to be complete?  New Question:  What does subject/verb agreement mean?

3.  In a correctly written sentence, the subject and verb agree in number.  Singular subjects have singular verbs, and plural subjects have plural verbs.  Our baby sleeps more than ten hours a day.  Some babies sleep even longer.

4.  A verb often comes right after its subject.  The sealed boxes belong to my brother.

5.  Sometimes, the subject and verb are separated by other words.  A small bag of potato chips contains 440 calories.  Bag is the subject; it needs to agree with contains.

6.  The tomatoes in this salad is brown and mushy.

7.  Books about baseball fills my son’s room.

8.  A compound subject is made up of two nouns connected by a joining word. Subjects joined by and generally take a plural verb.  John and Julia go to a restaurant every night.

9.  Subjects are not just people or places—they can be ideas or things.  Sometimes, these things may look like verbs.  Running and lifting weights are good ways to keep in shape.

10.  Fear and ignorance has a lot to do with hatred.

11.  Bananas and peanut butter taste/tastes good together.  My counselor and my English instructor has/have agreed to write recommendations for me.  Forests and lakes surround/surrounds the campground.  The cat and the dogs sleep/sleeps curled up together.  Kara and her children live/lives in a shelter.

12.  The students in Teron’s class is very young. These boys and girls attends the school’s pre- kindergarten class. Most of them can’t read yet. But Teron and their other teachers reads to them every day. Being read to is one way children learn to read themselves. The boy on Teron’s right love to read about insects. Beetles and mosquitoes doesn’t bother him. He thinks that someday he might like to be a scientist who studies bugs.