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