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.

Subject as the doer ‘Subject’ refers to the performer of the action in a clause. It refers to the doer while the receiver is called the object.

AS we should all know by now, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive ...

A sentence in the active voice typically has the formation of Subject Verb Object SVO. The verb needs to be in agreement with the subject for proper grammar formation. We have certain rules to ...

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 ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The verb in a sentence is the word that shows action or being. The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that ...

Like the subject, the object is usually a noun (‘the piano’) or a noun phrase, (‘the big, black piano’).Verbs that take objects describe some kind of action rather than a state of being.