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8. Her mother, together with her two brothers, (is, are) arriving today from Davao.
12. Here and there a man like the astronauts and the scientists (dares, dare) to venture to the
unknown.
13. Occasionally a group of children and teenagers, (disturbs, disturb) our fiesta.
14. The class decided to see how one of these present-day cars (is, are) assembled.
15. Memory of summer escapades and summer friends soon (fades, fade) in the first exciting days of
college freshman year.
17. Mother is one of those women who (doesn’t, don’t) support Women’s Library.
20. Majority of the people (is, are) happy about the situation.
28. The wear and tear of life (was, were) too much for her.
29. There (was, were) a man, a woman, and a child in the room waiting to be served.
30. Neither of the boys (was, were) responsible for what happened.
31. One of the prisoners who (is, are) required needs to be scrutinized.
40. Delia and I (are, were) absent from the meeting yesterday.
42. The tornadoes that tear through this county every spring (is, are) more than just a nuisance.
43. There (have, has) to be some people left in that town after yesterday’s flood.
44. A high percentage of the population (is, are) voting for the new school.
46. A high percentage of the people (was, were) voting for the new school.
47. He seems to forget that there (is, are) things to be done before he can graduate.
48. Either the physicians in this hospital or the chief administrator (is, are) going to have to make a
decision.
49. (Is, Are) my boss or my sisters in the union going to win this grievance?
50. Kobe Bryant, together with his teammates, (presents, present) a formidable opponent on the
basketball court.
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A verb is singular in form when it end in-s or –es, for example walks , rings, plays, calls, describes ,
catches, does, chooses, loses.
The root or base form of the verb is referred to as its plural form . It is used with all kinds of subject s
except the third person, singular which call for the s-form.
1. Subjects and verbs must agree in number. This is the cornerstone rule that forms the background of
the concept.
Example”
2. Each , everyone, everybody, everyone, someone, somebody, anyone, anybody, nobody, no one, either,
and neither are singular. They take singular verbs.
Example:
3. Don’t get confused by the words that come between the subject and verb; they do not affect
agreement.
Example:
C. If two subjects connected by either or or neither nor differ in person or number the verb agrees
with the nearer subject.
Example:
6. When sentences start with “there” or “here,” the subject will always be placed after the verb, so care
needs to be taken to identify it correctly.
7. Subjects don’t always come before verbs in questions. Make sure you accurately identify the subject
before deciding on the proper verb form to use.
Examples:
c. The cow and the pig are jumping over the moon.
9. The verb is singular if the two subjects separated by and refer to the same person or thing.
10. Indefinite pronouns such as “every”, “no”, “everybody”, etc. typically take singular verbs.
11. The only time when the object of the preposition factors into the decision of plural or singular verb
forms is when noun and pronoun subjects like some, half, none, more, all, etc. are followed by a
prepositional phrase. In these sentences, theobject of the preposition determines the form of the verb.
12. The pronoun “you” even if it refers to one person require a plural verb.
Examples:
13. The singular verb form is usually used for units of measurement.
Example: Four quarts of oil was required to get the car running.
14. Nouns plural in form but singular in meaning take singular verbs , for example, politics, economics,
physics, mathematics.
Examples:
15. In “ there is “ and” there are” sentences, make the verb agree with the subject that follows it.
Examples:
14. When a relative pronoun is used as the subject of clause, the form of the verb is determined by the
antecedent of the pronoun, because the pronoun has the same person and number that the antecedent
has.
Examples:
16. * Pronouns (few, many, several, both, all, some) always take the plural form.
18. When gerunds are used as the subject of a sentence they take the singular verb form of the verb, but
when they are linked by and they take the plural form.
Example: Standing in the water was a bad idea.Swimming in the ocean and playing drums are my
hobbies.
19. A collective noun is considered singular when the group is regarded as a unit; it is plural when the
emphasis is upon the individuals of the group. A plural noun of amount , distance etc., takes a singular
verb when the subject is used as a unit of measurement .
Example:
20. Titles of books, movies, novels, etc. are treated as singular and take a singular verb.
21. Final Rule – Remember, only the subject affects the verb!
QUIZ
Copy and paste this online quiz to word processor and email your work to this address
martha_aux@yahoo.com.ph. Your output shall be the basis of your work for the week.
Decide and underline which of the verbs within the parentheses is to the parentheses is the correct one.
4. Our dog, with her five puppies (sleeps, sleep) to the terrace.
11. Either of these two television sets (is, are) a good bargain.
16. Not one of the incidental fees (were, was) collected during the registration.
17. Behind the kitchen (is, are) a bicycle and two plows.
19. The marketing manager or his assistant (is, are) always on duty.
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In grammar, tense is a distinctive form of verb, which indicates the time of its action or assertion. The
traditional labels of the tenses of the verbs are principally words denoting time such as past, present,
future. Thus, it is assumed that the function of tense is to show time.
There are six tenses: three simple tenses, and three compound as perfect tenses. The three simple
tenses are: present, past, and future. In addition to the six tenses, there are progressive forms of the
verb. All of these tense forms suggest time constraints or boundaries.
In English, most sentences require a verb which necessarily occurs in a tense form to indicate time. This
indication of time may also be supplied by an adverb. In addition, an adverb may modify the time
suggested by the tense of the verb.
As suggested by its label, the present tense denotes present time. In sentences, it has four functions: to
refer to a habitual action, to express general truth, to indicate a permanent condition, and to state a
present fact, simple futurity or habitual presents.
Examples:
Oil floats on water. (In this particular example the present tense is used to make a statement that is
generally true without reference to time.)
The simple past tense is used to denote an action which is definitely completed in the past.
The simple future tense denotes an action which will happen or will occur at some future time.
Example: The country will recover from the present economic crisis.
The progressive form of the verb expresses action that at a given time or event is in progress or
continuing. Usually, in a progressive construction of the actual activity is emphasized by the progressive
form of the verb.
Examples:
The members of the committee are studying all the research proposals.
At the time we will be there, they will still be preparing the hall for the conference.
2. When the two words of a compound subject refer to the same person or thing or otherwise form a
unit, the verb is usually singular.
3. When the singular subject is joined to a related noun by a preposition or expression such as with,
together with, as well as, in addition to, the verb is singular.
4. The Collective nouns are singular in form but refer to a group of objects, persons or acts, such as army,
jury, committee, public, team, etc. When the group is meant as a unit, the verb is singular, when the
individuals are meant, the verb is plural.
5. A number of terms of amount and measure have collective agreement, with the singular the more
common.
6. In a sentence, a singular subject always requires a singular verb despite long intervening phrases or
clauses containing plural nouns.
7. Relative clauses introduced by who or that or which have verbs agreeing with the pronoun’s
antecedent.
QUIZ
The following quiz involves the application of the use of simple tenses and the pointers on agreement.
Choose the correct form of the verb in the parentheses in each of the following sentences. Copy and
paste this online quiz in Word Processor and e-mail to this address martha_aux@yahoo.com.ph. This will
serve as your quiz and attendance for the week’s session.
1. The children ________ (watch, watches, watched, are watching) the fishing boats scattered all
over the lake on moonlight nights.
2. After spending two weeks in the islands, the tourists _______ (go, went, going ) home carrying in
their minds a beautiful picture which _____ (be, are, is ) both inspiring and ennobling.
3. During our visit to Tagaytay we ____ (go, went, goes ) to a point where we ____ (have, had, has)
a good view of Taal Volcano which ____ (be, is, are) several feet below sea level.
4. During sunsets the lake _____ (appear, appears, will appear, appeared) peaceful.
5. As I _____ (lie, lay, lying, lied) awake in the dark last night, I ______ (realize, realizing, will realize,
realized) how necessary light (be, is, are) _____.
7. The city government _______ (collect, collects, will collect, collected) higher taxes stating next
month.
10. Before you ______ ( leave, will leave, left) tell us what you ______ (do, did, done) with yourself
in the United States.
11. Silas Marner is the story of a weaver who ______ (lose, lost, loss) his faith in man and God.
12. James Watt _______ (discover, discovers, discovered) that steam ______ (have, has, had) power.
13. When my great grandmother _______ (is, are, was) in elementary school her teacher in English
____ (be, is, was, were) an American, but now there ¬¬______ (were, are, is, was) few American
teachers in the school system.
14. We ______ (are, is, was, were) told that London fog _____ (last, lasts, lasted) hours and hours.
15. In our Biology class yesterday, our teacher______ (show, shows, showed) us how much nitrogen
there _____ (is, are, were, was) in air.
16. Our experiment yesterday ______ (proved, prove, proves) that oxygen ______ (support,
supports, supported) combustion.
17. Last week a marketing agent _____ (come, comes, came) to persuade my sister to buy a portable
sewing machine.
18. The lecturer in our science class last week _______ (gives, gave, give) two proofs that air ______
(occupy, occupies, occupied) space.
19. The other day we _____ ( conduct, conducted, conducts) and experiment to prove that air
(exert, exerts, exerted) pressure.
21. The Indonesian softball team (was, were) beaten by the Philippine team by a score of seven to
four.
23. Not one of the party (was, were) injured in the explosion.
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