SINGULAR AND PLURAL

AGREEMENT BETWEEN VERBS

AND SUBJECTS.By Andrew Bateh

A subject is the person or thing that is or does something.

A verb is the action that the subject performs in the sentence.

What are subjects and verbs?

Whether the verb is singular or plural determines if it is the action of a group or a single thing.

If the verb is singular it will end in “t” If the verb is plural it will end in “nt”

Singular and plural

Look at the subject and verbs1. Cornelia et Flavia in agris currunt.Cornelia and Flavia run into the fields.-the subject is plural because there are two

people and the verb is plural because it ends in nt.

Agreement between verb and subject

verb

singular Ends in nt

plural Ends in t

CHART

1Cornelia et Flavia in agris _____ (currit,currunt)

2 Sextus sub arbore _______ (sedent,sedet)

3 Cornelia in Italia________ (habitat, habitant)

4 Davus et Sextus _________ Cornelia (vexat,vexant)

EXERCISES