English Club- (3rd Meeting)

In this meeting we will be learning two more skills, those are:

Skill 3: Agreement of Gerund as Subject.

Skill 4: Agreement of Collective Nouns as Subject.

Subject-verb agreement.

Agreement of Gerund as Subject

If a sentence begins with gerund (verb + ing), the verb must be in singular form.

examples:

• Knowing her has made him what he is.

• Writing many letters makes her happy.

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Agreement of Collective Nouns as Subject

Examples:

• The crowd was wild with excitement.

• Our team is going to win the game.

• My family is going to visit my married brother on the town tomorrow.

Subject | Subject

Subject verb agreement

Words that indicate a number of people or animals known as collective nouns, collective nouns are indicates as singular. Have a look with the following nouns below, they are usually singular.

Subject verb agreement

Family

Team

Jury

Congress

Organization

Government

Group

Army

Majority*

Committee

Club

Minority

Class

Crowd

Public

Majority can either plural or singular. if it is alone is usually singular, but if it follows by plural noun, it usually plural.

e.g: -The majority believes that we are in no danger. (singular form)

-The majority of the students believe him to be innocent.

Subject verb agreement

Flock of birds, sheep

herd of cattle

pack of dogs, wolves

school of fish

pride of lions

example:

A school of fish is being attacked by the shark.

A pride of lions is sitting under the shade of big trees

Subject verb agreement

example:

Two miles is too much to run in a day.

Twenty dollars is all I have right now.

Fifty minutes isn't enough to finish this test.

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