Sentence examples for verb agree from inspiring English sources

After all, things is plural; should not the verb agree with that?

Just don't hold out for one who can speak coherently about sequestration or make a subject and a verb agree.

You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.

In a neither-nor or either-or construction, the verb agrees with the closest part of the subject.

Once you've decided whether the noun is singular or plural, make sure the verb agrees, or people will conclude you is sloppy.

In such cases, Pashto forms are the same as Hindi forms: the verb agrees with the subject if it is intransitive and with the object if it is transitive.

The Council on Foreign Relations is ready with some grammatical pointers on how to make subjects and verbs agree.

Here's another roundup of setbacks and slips in our continuing struggle to make verbs agree with their subjects and pronouns with their antecedents.

The test required the students to call on their knowledge in identifying parts of speech, making verbs agree with the sentence, supplying the correct form of the verb, using correct pronoun and article usage, and identifying fragment and run-on sentences (See Additional file 1: Appendix for sample questions).

Verbs agree with their subjects in person (first, second or third) and number (singular or plural), and are conjugated for tense (past, present or future).

Similarly, auxiliary verbs agree with the subject and any direct object and indirect object present and verb forms are marked for allocutive (i.e. a marker is used to indicate the gender of the addressee).