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A sentence hos o subject ond o verb. The verb must agree with
the subject.. A singulor subject tokes o singulor verb.. A plural
subject tokes o plurol verb.
1 A singulor subject must hove osingulor verb.
She recds one story eve?y week.Mr Wonq hos three big dogs.
2 A plurol subject must hove o plurolverb.
My clossmotes o?e ve?Y friendly ond nice.They know how to
cook.
3 ff two subjects in o sentence orejoined by ond, use the plurol
formof the verb.
Puon Fotimoh ond her childr:en go toCameron H i ghlonds of t
en.
My brother ond f collect toY cors.
4 When the subject is on uncountoblenoun, use o singulor
verb.
The milk is sour.
Suqor ottrocts onts.
5 When o sentence begins with Theretheverb agrees with the
subject.Tha subject comes af'rer the verb.
There is o cockrooch on the toble.
There ore mony people of the Pool.
Use o singulor verb with thesewords: (each, eve?y,
eve?yone,someone, something, onybody,onyone, no one, one of...)
Every pupil in this room hos o tie.
Someone is crying next door.
One of qs rides o bicycle to school.
7 Singulor collective nouns usesingulor verbs.
A teom of ployers is on the bus.There is o comb of bononos on
the counter.
8 Plurol collective nouns use plurolverbs
Two teoms of ployers ore on the bus.There ore three combs of
bononos on thecounter.
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Sinqulor sub.iectHe5heItAizad
wnoN6
Singulor verbis...wos...
hos...does...jumps...
Plurol sub iectYouTheyWe
My friends
Plurol verbare...were...hove...do...lump ..
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f likes fo eot duricns.Shoino hsva three brothers ond
onesister.Everyone in this house woke up otsix.
f like to eot durions.Shoiro has three brothers o*d
onesister.Everyone in this house wokes up ctsix.
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Underline lhe correcl qnswer.
I The dogs (chose, choses) oll the cots theu see.2 Aizo (put,
puts) some pepper in her soup.3 The liille girls (hos, hove)
flowers in their hoir.4 Theg (pour, pours) some sUrup into their
glosses.5 Pok Amin (pluck, plucks) some rombutons for us.6 Some
college students (live, lives) in the opposite house.7 Mg ountie
olwous (visit, visits) mg cousin in Austrolio.8 (Does, Do) ongbodu
know where the dictionorg is?cl A group of bogs (is, ore) helping
Mr Muthu to corrg the pots.l0 Robbits (nibble, nibbles) their
food.
Fill in lhe blonks with the correct form of the verbs given in
the brockets.II (proU) five times o dog.
The postmon (deliver) leliers to our neighbourhood.
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3 The lodg4 Everg pupil5 The gordeners6 Encik Soiful7 Storms ond
fires
(frg) bonono fritters bg the roodside.(sit) for the
end-of-the-geor exominotion.
(orronge) oll the flower pots nicelg.(enjog) singing in the
shower.(desfrog) buildings ond trees.
I WhU
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(do) the lions roor loudlg?q Sofio (help) her mother to cook
everg dog.lO The cors (stop) ol the troffic lights when the light
is red.
Chee Leong ond his friends
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Rewrile eoch sentence with the given
I Chee Leong plogs footboll everuwords (subjecl) without
chongihg lhe tense of the veb.dou.
2 Mg molher goes lo lhe ggm to exercise.Mg mother ond fother
3 The shop opens ol 8 om ond closes ot l0 pm.The shops
4 Our neighbour is moving into his new house soon.Our
neighbours
5 The rose smells good ond looks prettg.The roses
6 There is o torloise ond o tood in the pond.There ore
7 Thot lodg hos lo wolk home becouse the bus broke down.Those
lodies
I The worker is corrging o big box into the store.The
workers
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Underline the error in eoch senlence. Then, wrile the correct
onswer in the spoce provided.
I Are somebodg in the house now?2 Nino ond Nini flosses their
leeth before theg go to bed.3 I connot sleep becouse I is nol
tired.4 The bosket of fruits ore in the kitchen.5 Evergone here
wont on ice-creom cone.6 There is on ormg of onl under lhot tree.7
The old buses needs repoiiing.I Both onimol eot gross ond
vegelobles.q Our grondporenls bug us lots of gifts when theg
visils.l0 Is those sond in gour hoir?
TJPSR PracticeCircle the besl phrose to describe the picture
given-
Muniro ond I ore best friends. We enjog doing things together.
We
o*## (2). We olso(3) on the phone o lot: I hope we will be best
friends forever.
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