Example of Subject Verb Agreement Practice
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SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
RULES FOR SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
RULE 1 – A verb agrees with its subject in number.
Singular subjects take singular verbs:
The car stays in the garage.
The flower smells
good.
There is an old saying: “Opposites attract.” The rule for singular and plural verbs is just the opposite of
the rule for singular and plural nouns. Remember this when you match subjects and verbs. You might
guess that stays
and smells are plural verbs because they end in s. They aren’t. Both stays and smells are
singular verbs.
RULE 2 – The number of the subject (singular or plural) is not changed by words that come between the
subject and the verb.
One of the eggs is broken. Of the eggs is a prepositional phrase. The subject one and the verb is
are both singular. Mentally omit the prepositional phrase to make the subject verb-agreement
easier to make.
SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT EXERCISE 1
Direction: Circle the correct verb in each of the sentences below. Check your answers on the following
page.
1. Your friend (talk-talks) too much.
2. The man with the roses (look-looks) like your brother.
3. The women in the pool (swim-swims) well.
4. Bill (drive-drives) a cab.
5. The football players (run-runs) five miles every day.
6. That red-haired lady in the fur hat (live-lives) across the street.
7. He (cook-cooks) dinner for his family.
8. The boys (walk-walks) to school every day.
9. The weather on the coast (appear-appears) to be good this weekend.
10. The center on the basketball team (bounce-bounces) the ball too high.
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