Subject-Verb Agreement help please.?
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You would say "My problem is my homework".  The word "homework" can mean one piece of homework or many pieces of homework.\n\nI am not exactly sure what you mean.  The example you gave does not really help clarify it for me.  Do you possibly mean some confusion about "collective nouns" such as committee, government, family??  \n\nGenerally the topic is subject/verb agreement - if the subject is plural then the verb is usually plural.  Collective nouns can be  exceptions.\n\nIs the confusion about the fact that nouns and verbs usually form their plurals in opposite ways?  With nouns you add "s" but with verbs you take away the "s". \n\nI know that English grammar can be very confusing, but I cannot really identify your issue.  If you can clarify and repost your question you may get better answers.  Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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main verbs are simple but u are thinking to hard. u are suppose to be a english master,but the main verb is the verb the sentence is based around   ex: drive, choose, gave, and any other tenses of thoose. i hope that helps and i hope u understand the email i sent u becuz i didnt
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It's B; I'm very certain.\n\n"A" has a subject, verb, and a direct object.\n"C" has a subject, verb, and a prepositional phrase.\n\nBut "B" is the one that has a subject complement, "better," which describes the subject, "I."
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bonjour comment ce va?  \n\nhere is a link that may help you out. \n\nmy francais is very rusty...I haven't been in school for a while, but this site will help with the verbs. \n\ngood luck to you , bon soir\n\nhttp://french.about.com/library/verb/bl_verb.htm
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By each sentence:\n\nThe simple subject is a noun or pronoun that does something.\nThe predicate is the action word...it's what's happening.\n\n1.  Earnest and Raoul  - 2 simple subjects\n.....now you fill in the predicate.....what they did?\n\n2.  Leadbelly is the subject....\nverb has two worlds....and it's not simple so by having two words in the predicate, it is compound....\n....so what did Leadbelly do?....predicate 2 words is:has _________.\n3. You is the subject\n.....what did you do...... first part of the predicate is have.....you misspelled the rest of the verb.\n\n4.  Leadbelly is the subject\n....what did Leadbelly do.......\nI'll give you this one......the predicate is:    was\n\nSo subjects :  do something...or are something,\npredicates or verbs:  are the action words, are what the subjects do, or ....are something....am, is, was, were......\n\nI hope this helps!!!
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First, to answer your comma question: Your second sentece is correct. 'If you give me money' is a dependent clause: it relies on 'I'll order a pizza' to make complete sense, so a comma is needed to correctly combine the two clauses that form your sentence.\nThe first link below explains more about dependent and independent clauses and how to combine them with correct punctuation.\n\nNow, to the subject-verb agreement question: The first sentence is correct. Again, this is about dependent and independent clauses, as well as subject-verb agreement. To identify the subject of the sentence, try removing the phrase that is in between the two commas. When you do this, you can clearly see that your verb must agree in the singular, because you are talking about 'the bus'. 'The bus' is the subject of your sentence. \n\nThe phrase in between the commas is a dependent clause: to make sense it needs context from the other parts of your sentence. Without context, the phrase 'in addition to three cars' makes no sense, so it cannot be the subject of your sentence. \n\nYou could turn this sentence around by moving the nouns:\n'Three cars, in addition to the bus, are a total loss.' Note how the verb agrees with 'three cars' now, and not with 'the bus'. The phrase in the middle is still not able to stand by itself as a complete idea, so it is dependent and cannot be the subject of your sentence\nThe second link will help you understand subject-verb agreement a bit more, too.\n\nI've emailed this to you, as well. I hope it helps!
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simple subject-main word in the subject\ncompound subject- the whole subject\nsimple predicate-it is your verb\ncompound predicate-the whole predicate\n\nThe big dog ran down the street.\n\nsimple sub-dog\ncompoundsub-the big dog\nsimple pred-ran\ncompound pred-ran down the street
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This is fine as it is. The few grammatical mistakes that there are just aren't worth correcting.\nGood job, and good luck on your speech!
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Its a noun or a verb, transitive verb or intransitive verb, depending on context.
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Subject means the thing u are talking about. Like if u are talking about cars then "cars" is the subject.
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Towards/toward is a preposition, so it has nothing to do with subject/verb agreement.\n\nEither one is correct, although you'll find that one is more prevalent than the other in certain dialects.
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like...''Lisa slapped Bart.''   The subject is the thing that gets acted upon or affected directly by the main verb.  the predicate is the other noun in the sentence that does the action, so Lisa is the predicate, Bart is the subject.
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When I find out what it is you are asking, I might be able to help.\n\nLearn some grammar and proper sentence structure!
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A -> B\nB -> C\n...\nT -> U\nYou (U) -> V\nV -> W\n\nSo, You -> V
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When I was in high school, my spanish teacher taught us the proper verb agreement by making a good sized 8 sided dice (dye?) On the dye there was a subject and a choice of 2 or 3 verbs. The teacher starts off the game by throwing the dye to a student, they roll the dye, say the question out loud, and then answer it. If they answer it correctly, they get to throw it to any student they want in the room, but if the student gets it wrong they give it back to the teacher. You could make an incentive for those who get it right in one try if you'd like, but we never got any lol.
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You can use both, but it's not a question of "subject/verb" agreement!\nIt's linked to "If" as in "If I were you". It's just a matter of feasability of the action (is it very probable or not).\nAs for the "subject/verb" agreement, it has to be "was" because the only subject is "your answer" and if you had to change the end of the sentence by a singular noun "a photo", it'd stay the same!\nHope it helps!
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Grammatically they are both correct.  #2 sounds more natural.  My only source is my Sprachgefühl (feel for language)