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PAGE PAGE 6 Part A GRAMMAR Subject- Verb Agreement Subject-verb agreement is a very complicated issue and it is not our intention to cover all the ground in this unit. What we attempt to do here is to bring students attention to some points particularly tricky and let them learn by practice. The method we use in the grammar section of this book is the discovery approach -- to let students find out their own answers. We hope this can raise students interest in learning grammar and sharpen their inductive skills. The question of subject-verb agreement is very complicated. Generally speaking, there are three basic principles: grammatical agreement, notional agreement, and the principle of proximity. In his unit, we are going to approach this issue in four contexts: When the subject is compound Reference for the Classroom Activities Summary: A compound subject with and takes a plural verb in most cases, but when it expresses a singular meaning or when each of the singular subjects is considered individually, it takes a singular verb. After a compound subject with or, nor, either…or, neither…nor, not …but, the verb agrees in number and person with the nearer part of the subject. Intervening phrases or clauses not introduced by coordinating conjunctions do not affect the number of a verb. Such phrases are normally introduced by prepositions or prepositional phrases such as well as, as much as, rather than, along with in addition to, together with, with, plus, and including. When the subject expresses quantity Reference for the Classroom Activities All the sentences are correct. Summary: Nominal phrases of time, money, weight and measurement normally take a singular verb. Some words or phrases, such as all, most, half, the last, the rest, take a singular or plural verb, depending on the meaning of the noun or pronoun that follows. Phrases like lots of, heaps of , loads of take singular or plural verbs depending on the form of the nouns that follow. In sentences with