A sentence hos o subject ond o verb. The verb must agree with the subject.

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A singulor subject tokes o singulor verb.

A plural subject tokes o plurol verb.

A singulor subject must hove o

singulor verb.

She recds one story eve?y week.

A plurol subject must hove o plurol

verb.

My clossmotes o?e ve?Y friendly ond nice.

3 ff two subjects in o sentence ore

joined by ond, use the plurol form

of the verb.

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Mr Wonq hos three big

dogs.

They know how to cook.

Puon Fotimoh ond her childr:en go
Cameron H i ghlonds of t en.

My brother ond

to

collect toY cors.

When the subject is on uncountoble

noun, use o singulor verb.

The milk is sour.

When o sentence begins with There

theverb agrees with the subject.
Tha subject comes af'rer the verb.

There is o cockrooch on the toble.

Use o singulor verb with these

words: (each, eve?y, eve?yone,
someone, something, onybody,
onyone, no one, one of...)

Every pupil in this room hos o tie.

Singulor collective nouns use

singulor verbs.

A teom of ployers is on the bus.

Plurol collective nouns use plurol

verbs

Two teoms

Suqor ottrocts onts.

There ore mony people of the

Pool.

Someone is crying next door.

One of qs rides o bicycle to school.

There is o comb of bononos on the counter.

of ployers ore on the

bus.

There ore three combs of bononos on the

counter.

Sinqulor sub.iect

Singulor verb

Plurol sub iect

Plurol verb

He

is...

You

are...

5he

It

wos...
hos...

They

were...

We

Aizad

does...

My friends

hove...
do...

jumps...

lump

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Shoino hsva three brothers ond one

likes fo eot duricns.

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Shoiro has three brothers o*d one

sister.
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like to eot durions.

sister.

Everyone in this house woke up ot

six.

Everyone in this house wokes up

six.

Underline lhe correcl qnswer.

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The dogs (chose, choses) oll the cots theu see.

Aizo (put, puts) some pepper in her soup.
The liille girls (hos, hove) flowers in their hoir.
Theg (pour, pours) some sUrup into their glosses.
Pok Amin (pluck, plucks) some rombutons for us.
Some college students (live, lives) in the opposite house.
Mg ountie olwous (visit, visits) mg cousin in Austrolio.
(Does, Do) ongbodu know where the dictionorg is?
A group of bogs (is, ore) helping Mr Muthu to corrg the pots.
Robbits (nibble, nibbles) their food.

Fill in lhe blonks with the correct form of the verbs given in the brockets.

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(proU) five times o dog.

The postmon

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(deliver) leliers to our neighbourhood.

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The lodg

Everg pupil

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The gordeners

(orronge) oll the flower pots nicelg.

Encik Soiful

(enjog) singing in the shower.

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(frg) bonono fritters bg the roodside.

(sit) for the end-of-the-geor exominotion.

Storms ond fires

(desfrog) buildings ond trees.

(do) the lions roor loudlg?

WhU

Sofio

(help) her mother to cook everg dog.

The cors

(stop) ol the troffic lights when the light is red.

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Rewrile eoch sentence with the given words (subjecl) without chongihg lhe tense of the veb.

Chee Leong plogs footboll everu dou.

Chee Leong ond his friends

Mg molher goes lo lhe ggm to exercise.

Mg mother ond fother

The shop opens ol 8 om ond closes ot l0 pm.

The shops

Our neighbour is moving into his new house soon.

Our neighbours

The rose smells good ond looks prettg.

The roses

There is o torloise ond o tood in the pond.

There ore

Thot lodg hos lo wolk home becouse the bus broke down.
Those lodies

The worker is corrging o big box into the store.

The workers

Underline the error in eoch senlence. Then, wrile the correct onswer in the spoce provided.

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Are somebodg in the house now?

Nino ond Nini flosses their leeth before theg go to bed.
I connot sleep becouse I is nol tired.

The bosket of fruits ore in the kitchen.

Evergone here wont on ice-creom cone.

There is on ormg of onl under lhot tree.

The old buses needs repoiiing.
Both onimol eot gross ond vegelobles.
Our grondporenls bug us lots of gifts when theg visils.
Is those sond in gour hoir?

TJPSR Practice
Circle the besl phrose to describe the picture given-

Muniro ond I ore best friends. We enjog doing things together. We

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(2). We olso

(3) on the phone o lot: I hope we will be best friends forever.

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collecl stomps

3A

B collects stomp

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D

2A

collected siomp
collecling stomps

like pizzo
likes pizzo
c liked pizzos
D liking pizzos
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tolk to eoch other

tolks to eoch other
c tolked to eoch others
D lolking to eoch others