None of us doubts that “Mayor Carlson is here” takes a different verb form than “Mayor Carlson and his deputies are here.” The “and,” a coordinating conjunction, coordinates the ...

Although English-language verbs generally don’t inflect or change in form to agree with the subject in number, they do so in the present tense, third-person singular. In English grammar, in this ...

The subject should match the verb, writes June Casagrande, as in “The cats can catch their tails.” But agreement isn’t always easy, she explains.

Journalists make a crucial framing decision in every story. They select the subject and then choose a verb to highlight what the subject did. It doesn't seem complicated, but, as two Twitter users ...

In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

One of the earliest and most useful grammar rules in English is that a verb should always agree with its subject in both person and number.