Here is an example of an actual sat-verb correspondence question used by a compound subject. You may think that the verb should be plural, because the sentence mentions both jewelry and cards, but because of the chest of drawers, the theme is only jewelry. Do you know how to conjugate the verb to combine it with the theme in foreign languages? We have the same thing in English, and it can become difficult, even if simple cases seem so natural and obvious to us: subject-verb concordance is a rule that all subjects match their verbs in number. Singular subjects take singular verbs. Plural subjects accept plural obsedations. So where is the topic? «Under my bed» is a prepositional phrase – that`s not the point. What`s the matter? Both a pen and a receipt from Taco Bell. We can rearrange the order of sentences so that the sentence is: «A pen and a Taco Bell receipt exist». Since there is a composite subject, the verb should be in the plural form.

This is the corrected version of the sentence: However, if two or more topics are connected by and by the interconnected, you should use plural text. Whether two or more subjects are connected or not, the verb corresponds to the subject closest to the verb. Finally, the amounts are generally singular, as are the securities. Here are some examples: Most subject-verb correspondence questions on the SAT are about verb forms in the third-person singular form (he/she/she/one) and plural forms of the third person (she). All right. It`s time to test your subject-verb matching abilities. Flip through page 416, #19 in the OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE SAT and give it a try. If you`re ever not sure if a verb like Show is singular or plural, test it by introducing him and her, and then asking yourself what seems most true: the subject is both time and place. Therefore, the verb must be in the plural. In addition, there is an additional error in the sentence that should be «for approval». The correct answer is C. We know that a subject cannot be present in a prepositional sentence and that the subject must correspond to the verb.

What does the residence do? Buttons. And «on my forehead» indicates where the buttons are. Since the subject is plural, the verb must be in the plural form: A non-essential sentence often begins with a relative pronoun (who, who, who, or where), but it does not do so in a sentence known as appositive. . . .