Noun Agreement Cards

Question 0

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Verb Phrases must always agree with their subjects

Question 1

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Answer 1

a verb should always agree with its subject in number

Question 2

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the subject is never part of a prepositional phrase and the number of a subject is not changed by a phrase that follows it

Question 3

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Answer 3

the indefinite pronouns each eiter neither one everyone,everybody,no one, anyone, anybody, someone, somebody are all singular. several few both and many are all plural. some all most any and none can either be singular or plural

Question 4

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a compound subject joined by and are plural, compound subjects joined by or or nor are singular

Question 5

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Answer 5

don’t is plural, doesn’t is singular

Question 6

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Answer 6

collective nouns are plural

Question 7

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Answer 7

a verb agrees with its subject, not its predicate nominative

Question 8

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in a quesion, or in a sentence beginning with here or there, the subject follows the verb

Question 9

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contractions that include the verb is are singular

Question 10

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Answer 10

words stating an amount of money or time are usually singular

Question 11

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Answer 11

titles of art literature or music, even when in plural form are singular

Question 12

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every or many before a subject calls for a singular verb

Question 13

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a few nouns, although in plural form, take singular verbs

Question 14

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Answer 14

a prounoun with must agree with its antecedent in number and gender

Question 15

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Answer 15

when the antecedent of a personal pronoun is another kind of pronoun, look in a phrase following the antecedent to determine gender

Question 16

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try to avoid the his or her construction by using the plural form of the prounoun

Question 17

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two or more singular antecedents joined by or or nor are referred to by a singular pronoun