1. Subject-Verb Agreement

2. Essential Question
The subject of the sentence must agree with its verb how?
Must agree in number

3. Rules Making Subjects Agree with Verbs
If the subject of the sentence is singular than the verb of the sentence must be singular.
If the subject is plural, then the verb must be plural.
That tree loses its leaves early in the fall.
Those trees lose their leaves late in the fall.

4. Rules Making Subjects Agree with Verbs
To make a noun plural, add “s” or “es”.
To make a verb singular, add “s” or “es”.
Nouns
Verbs
Singular
Plural
girl
girls
walk
walks
box
boxes
fix
fixes

5. Rules Making Subjects Agree with Verbs
The irregular verbs be, do, and have can be main verbs or helping verbs. In either case, they must agree with the subject.
Singular:
She is painting a portrait. He does well. It has a good plot.
Plural:
They are artist. The students do try. They have completed the lesson.

6. Summary
1. The subject of the sentence must agree with its verb in _______________________
Must agree in number
To make a noun plural just add ______________
To make a verb singular just add ______________
“s” or “es”
“s” or “es”

7. Essential Question
The subject of the sentence must agree with its verb how?
Must agree in number

8. Rules Making Subjects Agree with Verbs
The verb must agree with the subject even when subject and verb are separated.
Sometimes a prepositional phrase separates the subject and verb.
Sometimes the subject come after the verb.
Interrogative sentence, a helping verb may come before the subject.

9. Prepositional Phrase separates subject and verb
Examples
The goal of those charities is to provide shelter for the homeless people.
The goal of those charities is to provide shelter for the homeless people.
Cars with air bags appear safer than cars without them.
Cars with air bags appear safer than cars without them.

10. Examples Here is the book you looked for yesterday.
Sometimes the subject comes after the verb, as in sentences that begin with here or there.
Examples
Here is the book you looked for yesterday.
Here is the book you looked for yesterday.
Subject: book Verb: is
There is a bug in your hair.
There is a bug in your hair.
Subject: bug Verb: is

11. Examples Does your dog really eat grapes?
In an interrogative sentence, a helping verb may come before the subject.
Examples
Does your dog really eat grapes?
Does your dog really eat grapes?
Subject: dog Verb: does eat
Was Kelly happy with her final performance?
Was Kelly happy with her final performance?
Subject: Kelly Verb: was happy

12. Summary
1. The subject of the sentence must agree with its verb in ___________ .
number
Prepositional phrase
2. Sometimes a ____________________ separates the subject from the verb.
3. In sentences that begin with __________________ the subject comes after the verb.
4. A _________________ may come before the subject in an interrogative sentence.
Here or there
Helping verb

13. Collective Nouns Singular The class reads everyday Plural
A collective noun names a group. It has a singular meaning when it describes a group that acts as a unit. It has a plural meaning when it describes members of the group acting as individuals
Singular
The class reads everyday
Plural
The class read from their textbooks.

14. Nouns that ends in -s Some Nouns that end in –s take a singular verb
Mathematics is my best subject.
Mumps is a childhoods disease.
The news is good.
Some Nouns that end in –s take a plural verb
Here are the binoculars.
Are my clothes ready?
The scissors are on my desk.

15. Title of a book The title of a book or work of art is always singular.
Little Women is a book by Louisa May Alcott
Where the Red Fern Grows is the book our teacher assigned us.

16. Amounts If an amount is treated as a single unit, it is singular.
Twenty dollars is the price of the radio I want
If an amount is treated as many individual units, it is plural.
Twenty dollars are scattered on the floor.

17. Amount
Twenty minutes lasts forever when you’re waiting for a phone call.
Five minutes pass quickly.