Chapter 3 - Subject Verb Agreement

Kaplan Premier

Look out for:

• Modifying phrases/clauses
• Either Or/Neither Nor
• Verb precedes subject
• Collective Nouns
• Singular subjects followed by plural noun (e.g a number of students)

Manhanttan GMAT

The Deadly Five: It, its, they, their, them

Singular: His or hers
Example: Each of the athletes in the parade IS carrying HIS or HER nation's flag.

Conjunctions cannot function as subjects of sentences

Helpful BeatTheGmat PostsVerb-ing or Unconjugated verb as subjects of a sentence must ALWAYS be singular http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2013/01/26/solving-sentence-correction-questions-are-not-always-an-easy-task

Unconjugated verb = Infinitive = Verb in its bare form
Take = Unconjugated verb
Takes, Taken, Took = Conjugated verb
Verb-ing = Present Participle