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 AGREEMENT

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 AGREEMENT: MATCHING

SENTENCE PARTS

 Agreement means that sentence parts match.

Subjects must agree with verbs, and pronouns

must agree with antecedents.

If they don’t, your sentences will sound awkward

and may confuse your listeners and readers.

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 A Singular Subject Must Have a Singular Verb

 a subject must agree with its verb in number. All the other rules follow from this one. The easiest

rules are these two: A singular subject must have a singular verb.

 A plural subject must have a plural verb.

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COLLECTIVE NOUNS AND

INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

 A collective noun names a group of people or

things. Collective nouns include the words class,

committee, flock, herd, team, audience, assembly,

team, and club. Collective nouns can be singular

or plural, depending on how they are used in a

sentence.

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SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN

 AGREEMENT

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 AGREEMENT OF PRONOUNS AND

 ANTECEDENTS

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