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Example 1 -
Incorrect: Justin's attention to the plants and animals, deserve a consideration.
Correct: Justin's attention to the plants and animals, deserves a consideration.
>>>The subject of the sentence is 'Justin's attention' not 'the plants and animals'. Therefore we use 'deserves'.
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Example 2 -
Incorrect: Thinking about the typhoon's strong winds give Ana nightmares.
Correct: Thinking about the typhoon's strong winds gives Ana nightmares.
>>>The subject of the sentence is 'the thinking of Ana' not the 'typhoon's strong winds'. Therefore we use 'gives'.
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Add-on: Sometimes subjects are followed by phrases set off with commas. These phrases, which begin with words and expressions like like, as well as, along with, and together with, also do not affect the normal subject-verb relationship.
Example 1: My parents, as well as my cousins, go to the party. ('as well as my cousins' is simply an intervening phrase. Therefore we use 'go' since the subject of the sentence is plural - 'my parents'.)
Example 2: Justin, along with his friends, goes to the party. ('along with his friends' is simply an intervening phrase. Therefore we use 'goes' since the subject of the sentence is singular - 'Justin'.)
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Exercise:
Choose the appropriate verb for the following sentences:
1.) A string on my electric guitar (is, are) out of tune.
2.) Days during summer (seem, seems) to pass very quickly.
3.) All stars, just like our sun, (has, have) a system of planets.
4.) Justin's stamp and coin collections, as well as his art gallery (was, were) saved from the flood.
5.) My brother Harry, along with Justin and Jesse, (has, have) forgotten to drink the milk.
6.) Those who drive to work always (complain, complains) about the traffic.
7.) The light from the new mercury lamps (brighten, brightens) the sidewalk.
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~end of lesson~
Monday, January 19, 2009
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CHAPTER 1 - THE PARTS OF SPEECH
CHAPTER 2 - VERBS
- Lesson 9 - Basic Facts about Verbs
- Lesson 10 - The Simple Present Tense
- Lesson 11 - The Present Continuous Tense
- Lesson 12 - The Simple Past Tense
- Lesson 13 - The Past Continuous Tense
- Lesson 14 - The Simple Future Tense
- Lesson 15 - The Future Continuous Tense
- Lesson 16 - The Present Perfect Tense
- Lesson 17 - The Past Perfect Tense
- Lesson 18 - The Future Perfect Tense
- Lesson 19 - Irregular Verbs in their Past Tense and Past Participle Form
CHAPTER 3 - PRONOUNS
- Lesson 20 - The Nominative Case
- Lesson 21 - The Objective Case
- Lesson 22 - The Possessive Case
- Lesson 23 - Pronoun Rules to Remember - Part 1
- Lesson 24 - Pronoun Rules to Remember - Part 2
- Lesson 25 - Pronoun Rules to Remember - Part 3
- Lesson 26 - Pronoun Rules to Remember - Part 4
- Lesson 27 - Tag Questions or Reiterative Formulas and the Use of Pronouns
CHAPTER 4 - RULES IN SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
- Lesson 28 - Present Tense Verb Forms
- Lesson 29 - Intervening Words and Phrases
- Lesson 30 - Compound Subjects
- Lesson 31 - Indefinite Pronoun Subjects
- Lesson 32 - Collective Noun Subjects
- Lesson 33 - Titles, Names of Organizations and Names of Countries as Subjects
- Lesson 34 - Words of Amount and Time
- Lesson 35 - Inverted Word Order
- Lesson 36 - Other Agreement Problems - Part 1
- Lesson 37 - Other Agreement Problems - Part 2
CHAPTER 5 - THE PHRASE
- Lesson 38 - The Prepositional Phrase
- Lesson 39 - The Appositive Phrase
- Lesson 40 - Recognizing a Participle - a Review
- Lesson 41 - The Participial Phrase
- Lesson 42 - Recognizing a Gerund - a Review
- Lesson 43 - The Gerund Phrase
- Lesson 44 - Recognizing an Infinitive - a Review
- Lesson 45 - The Infinitive Phrase
CHAPTER 6 - THE CLAUSE
CHAPTER 7 - THE SENTENCE
- Lesson 51 - The Basic Sentence Structure
- Lesson 52 - Expanding Sentences by Adding other Elements
- Lesson 53 - Expanding Sentences using Nominals and Appositives
- Lesson 54 - Varying Sentence Beginnings
- Lesson 55 - Transforming Sentences using Questions
- Lesson 56 - Transforming Sentences using Active/Passive Voice
- Lesson 57 - Combining Sentences
- Lesson 58 - Errors of Sentence Structure: Sentence Fragments
- Lesson 59 - Errors of Sentence Structure: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
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