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S - Agreement Subject Verb agreement  can be tricky for many people. As a matter of fact, one of the common comments teachers write on student essays is, “Watch your subject verb agreement!” If you’ve ever had a comment like that written on one of your essays or if you’d just like to brush up on your subject verb agreement rules, here some tips that are sure to help. What is subject verb agreement? Subject verb agreement refers to the fact that the subject and verb in a sentence must agree in number. In other words, they both must be singular or they both must be plural. You can’t have a singular subject with a plural verb or vice versa. The tricky part is in knowing the singular and plural forms of subjects and verbs. Singular and plural subjects, or nouns , are usually pretty easy. In most cases the plural form of a noun has an “s” at the end. Like this: Car – singular Cars – plural Verbs don’t follow this pattern, though. Adding an “s” ...

Relative clauses  can cause trouble in English, specially when they begin with less common forms of the pronoun who, such as  "whom"?  or  "whose"? . And there’s another problem: when to use  which  and when to use  that ? Here are some clear guidelines to help you.  1.                   Clauses with the relative pronoun as subject 2.                   Clauses with the relative pronoun as object 3.                   The relative pronoun as a possessive 4.                   Relative clauses starting with a preposition 5.            ...

PRONOUN A pronoun is defined as a word or phrase that is used as a substitution for a  noun  or noun phrase, which is known as the pronoun’s antecedent. Pronouns are short words and can do everything that nouns can do and are one of the building blocks of a sentence. Common pronouns are  he, she, you, me, I, we, us, this, them, that . A pronoun can act as a subject, direct object, indirect object, object of the  preposition , and more and takes the place of any person, place, animal or thing. So coffee becomes it, Barbara becomes she, Jeremy becomes he, the team becomes they, and in a sentence,  Barbara drinks a cup of coffee every afternoon  could become  she drinks a cup of it every afternoon , or even  she drinks it every afternoon , where the  it  would substitute  the cup of coffee , not just the  coffee . Without pronouns, we’d constantly have to repeat nouns, and that would make our speech and writing repetitiv...