ENGL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Indefinite Pronoun

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 101
• Professor: Mac Leod Brock

Document Summary

Subjects and verbs are the main building blocks for any sentence. A subject is the noun or pronoun that is performing the main action in the sentence. Karla calls her mother every week, the subject is karla. Verbs are action words or words that describe a state of being, such as think or feel. The main verb in this sentence is calls. Because karla is just one person, the subject is singular. Regular present tense verbs like call show they are singular by ending in s. Because the subject and verb are both singular, they agree and the sentence is correct. In this sentence, the subject, students, is plural. Most nouns become plural simply by adding s. Plural verbs do not have an s ending. Because the subject and verb are both plural, they agree and the sentence is correct. There is a problem with subject-verb agreement when the subject and verb do not agree in number.