English II Name______
Subject/ Verb Agreement Notes
1. A sentence’s subject and its verb must agree in ______.
Singular: Miranda loves music.
Plural: The students want to watch Sherlock.
2. Compound subjects connected by ______take a plural verb.
Brookeand Greg like reading short stories.
3. For a compound subject connected by ______, the verb agrees with the word that is closer to it.
Alexor Cameron wantsa piece of gum.
The boys or the girls are laughing.
The boys or Taydriana meets with friends.
Taydriana or the boysmeet with friends.
4. The object of the ______is ______the subject (except in ONE case—see #6).
Food between the teeth results in decay.
Food between the teeth results in decay.
5. Know the ______of indefinite pronouns.
Singular Pronouns / Plural Pronounsanother neither
anybody nobody
anyone no one
anything nothing
each one
either somebody
everybody someone
everyone something
everything much / both
many
several
few
others
6. Some, none, all, any, more, and most take the ______or the ______verb depending on the number of the object of the preposition.
Some of thestory was interesting.
Some of the movies were interesting.
7. In a sentence that begins with THERE IS or THERE ARE, the subject comes ______the to be verb.
There are twenty-three students in this class.
There is a better way to take notes.
8. Collective nouns take singular verbs when viewed as a ______and plural verbs when viewed ______.
The teamwins every game.
The family havemet their various obligations.
Grammar Practice—Quiz #1
Subject/Verb Agreement
1. One of the boxes no longer (have/has) any pencils.
2. According to the students, everything (is/are) being done that can be done.
3. Somebody always (take/takes) control.
4. None of the students (is/are) happy that they have to practice grammar.
5. Neither Maddie nor Matt and Celina (wants/want) to finish the grammar practice sheet.
6. Roy or Austin (asks, ask) when we will take the quiz.
7. Everybody (is/are) going to Homecoming.
8. The answers on the test (is/are) difficult to read.
9. Both teachers (is/are) laughing in the hallway.
10. Most of the gum (was/were) eaten.
Passive and Active Voice (P=passive, A=active)
____11. The gum was eaten by Mingu.
____12. Katie answered the question.
____13. The video was watched by Katelyn.
____14. The homework was completed by Dominique.
____15. Jackie ran to the bookstore.
Main Subject, Main Verb, Prepositional Phrase---Identify each part.
16. Some of the students ate lunch after 1:00.
17. The rain falling on the roof made noise.
18. The creatures of the night frightened me.
19. After listening to the music, Chase and Goon Sup fell asleep on their desks.
20. The answers from the students made sense.