Nuffnang ads

Monday 24 August 2015

GRAMMAR - Subject-verb Agreement

Assalam and Good Day.....

Here I would like to attach the notes I prepared for my form 1 classes...


SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

  •       A verb must agree with its subject. The subject is always a noun or pronoun.
  •       A singular subject takes a singular verb. For examples:

·      Mother likes to play badminton every evening.
·      Zainuddin has a big bungalow.
·      She eats rice.

  •      A plural noun must have a plural verb. The word plural means more than one.

Cats are animals.
Cats – plural noun
Are – plural verb
They are good boys.
They – plural pronoun
Are - plural verb
They eat rice.
they – plural noun
eat – plural verb

  •     The table below shows how we match the subjects with the present tense form of the                                                       
              verbs ‘to be’, ‘to have’ and ‘to do’.


Subject
Verb ‘to be’
Verb ‘to have’
Verb ‘to do’
Singular
He
She
It
is
has
does
I
am
have
do
You
are
Plural
We
They

  •     The table below shows how we match the subjects with the past tense form of the verbs  
              ‘to be’, ‘to have’ and ‘to do’.


Subject
Verb ‘to be’
Verb ‘to have’
Verb ‘to do’
Singular
He
She
It
I
was
had
did
You
were
Plural
We
They



EXERCISE  - UNDERLINE THE VERB THAT AGREES WITH THE SUBJECT IN THE SENTENCES BELOW.

1.        Misliah (likes, like) to sing Chinese songs.
2.        The hippopotamus (has, have) a huge mouth.
3.        Malaysia (is, are) a beautiful country.
4.        We (buy, buys) bananas from Pak Sop’s stall.
5.        My uncle (work, works) as a firefighter.
6.        Eric’s parents (was, were) killed in an accident last year.
7.        I (do, does) my homework after dinner every night.
8.        We (has, have) returned all your CDs.
9.        The children (want, wants) some more ice cream.

10.     She (wash, washes) her hair every week.

3 comments:

  1. Good day teacher.My nama is Sathya.Can I send my essays to you for marking?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Good day to you too Sathya.. first of all sorry for the delay... if you want me to mark ur essay please feel free to email it.. my email address is nurulainfathiahms@gmail.com

      Delete