Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Depending on the type of object they take‚ verbs may be transitive‚ intransitive‚ or linking. The meaning of a transitive verb is incomplete without a direct object‚ as in the following examples: INCOMPLETE The shelf holds. COMPLETE The shelf holds three books and a vase of flowers. INCOMPLETE The committee named. COMPLETE The committee named a new chairperson. INCOMPLETE The child broke. COMPLETE The child broke
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SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT The subject and the verb must agree in number: both must be singular or both must be plural. Students have problems with subject verb agreement when the verb is a form of be or have‚ or when the verb is in present tense. Rules for subject verb agreement 1. When words like the following are used as subjects‚ they take singular verb. Everybody | Anybody | Somebody | Nobody | Each | Everyone | Anyone | Someone | No one | Either | Everything | Anything | Something
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“Subject and Verb Agreement” 1. The subject and verb must agree in number. Dennis drives carefully along the highway. Mary men today drive their own cars. 2. Compound subjects take plural verbs. Rose and Lina are the bestfriends in school. 3. A compound subject to a single person takes a singular verb. Ny confidant and adviser is my mother. 4. Compound subjects that modified by each and every is singular. Every father and mother carries out the assigned roles. 5. The verb agrees with its subject
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COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS: NOTES: 1. Reflexive pronouns act as the object of the verb‚ but they reflect the action back to the subject. These pronouns will always be the same person or thing as the subject. Ex. She blamed herself for the mishap. He hurt himself yesterday. 2. Intensive pronouns simply add force or emphasis to a noun or pronoun that is already in the sentence. Ex. You yourself wrote those words. I prepared the meal myself. EXERCISES: Tell whether the underlined
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Change the following sentences into untrue conditional statements. In order to do this exercise correctly‚ you must 1. Decide if the sentence is about situation B or C‚ 2. Use the appropriate conditional verb forms for the if and result clauses (look at the chart in Lesson 2 on conditional verb forms). 3. Total 25 points Example 1: Maria feels tired all the time because she goes to bed so late. RESULT CONDITION (B) But if Maria didn’t
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which the subjects and verbs have been correctly identified and in which the subjects and verbs agree. The subjects are in bold and the verbs are underlined. Correct Answer: C At the end of the story‚ they were living happily ever after. (or were) Explanation: Use a plural verb with a plural subject. 2. Choose the sentence in which the subjects and verbs have been correctly identified and in which the subjects and verbs agree. The subjects are in bold and the verbs are underlined. Correct
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construction (20% of jobs‚ manufacturing (19% of jobs)‚ and services (19% of jobs). Module 16: Changing Verbs from Passive to Active Identify the passive verbs in the following sentences and convert them to active verbs. In some cases‚ you may need to add information to do so. You may use different words as long as you retain the basic meaning of the sentence. Remember that imperative verbs are active too. 1. The Marketing team wrote the Problem Solving Report. 2. You must take personal leave
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style VERBS 9/7/13 Verbs are a necessary component of all sentences. Verbs have two important functions: Some verbs put stalled subjects into motion while other verbs help to clarify . the subjects in meaningful ways 9/7/13 Examples My grumpy old English teacher smiled at the .plate of cold meatloaf My grumpy old English teacher = stalled .subject; smiled = verb The daredevil cockroach splashed into Sara’s .soup The daredevil cockroach = stalled .subject; splashed = verb Theo’s
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Subject and Verb Agreement 1. Collective Nouns * Consider a collective noun singular when it refers to a group as a whole. The orchestra rises. My family loves to travel. * Consider it plural when it refers to each member of a group individually. The orchestra are voting for their new conductor. My family take turns choosing places to go. 2. Special Nouns * Nouns plural in form (ending in S) but singular in meaning take singular verbs. Acoustics‚ economics‚ linguistics‚ mathematics
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SUBJECT AND VERB AGREEMENT Compound Subjects joined by Neither Nor …. Either Or …. Which of the two sentences are correct ? Either the dog or the kids were making a racket downstairs. Either the dog or the kids was making a racket downstairs. What is Compound Subject/s When a sentence ?has two or more subjects‚ that’s called a “compound subject.” The individual subjects in a compound subject are joined by a coordinating conjunction (and‚ or‚ neither‚ nor‚ Example: Neither the cake nor the
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