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Joe Carillo's Desk => Getting to Know English => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on July 16, 2013, 08:27:37 AM

Title: How to learn subject-verb agreement like the back of your hand
Post by: Joe Carillo on July 16, 2013, 08:27:37 AM

Request sent by Forum member JA to my Personal Message Box (July 15, 2013):

I have a classmate who finds the subject-verb agreement lesson difficult and I want to help her especially we are going to take our Licensure examination for teachers two years from now. May I ask what website offers a comprehensive discussion of subject-verb agreement?

My reply to JA:

I know three websites that provide detailed and very instructive discussion on subject-verb agreement:

1. Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/599/01/)
2. CCCF Guide to Grammar Writing (http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sv_agr.htm)
3. LEO (Literacy Education Online) (http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/subverag.html)

These websites should give your classmate adequate grounding on how to make subjects and verbs agree. For total mastery of the subject, she can take a pick every now and then from so many other excellent sites on the web that provide subject-verb agreement exercises for free. By just doing those exercises, I’m sure she can ace the teachers’ licensure exam very handily two years from now.