Imagine you are reading or listening to an American news story. Perhaps it is a health and lifestyle story.
Diabetes is a serious, chronic disease on the rise around the world...
Over time, diabetes can damage the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves.
Some of the nouns might seem like they could be plural. But they are not. For example, why does the story say “diabetes is...”?
Today, we will explore that very question.
Specifically, we will explore subject-verb agreement in the news.
Subject-verb agreement
Subject-verb agreement means that a sentence’s subject and verb agree in number. Here is an example:
My friends like to travel.
The subject, my friends, is plural. Therefore, the verb is plural as well.
If the sentence were about one friend, it would be different:
My friend likes to travel.
This is the basic idea of subject-verb agreement.
However, when you are reading or listening to English language news, you might hear some strange cases of subject-verb agreement.
The news, in fact, is full of strange cases of subject-verb agreement, as we will see.
Unusual kinds of subject verb agreement
English speakers often make nouns plural when they add an –s to the end of the word. For example, cat becomes cats; dog becomes dogs; house becomes houses.
But English speakers do not always consider nouns that end in –s to be plural. In fact, we gave you an example just a short time ago:
The news, in fact, is full of strange cases of subject-verb agreement.
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Imagine you are reading or listening to an American news story. Perhaps it is a health and lifestyle story.
Diabetes is a serious, chronic disease on the rise around the world...
Over time, diabetes can damage the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves.
Some of the nouns might seem like they could be plural. But they are not. For example, why does the story say “diabetes is...”?
Today, we will explore that very question.
Specifically, we will explore subject-verb agreement in the news.
Subject-verb agreement
Subject-verb agreement means that a sentence’s subject and verb agree in number. Here is an example:
My friends like to travel.
The subject, my friends, is plural. Therefore, the verb is plural as well.
If the sentence were about one friend, it would be different:
My friend likes to travel.
This is the basic idea of subject-verb agreement.
However, when you are reading or listening to English language news, you might hear some strange cases of subject-verb agreement.
The news, in fact, is full of strange cases of subject-verb agreement, as we will see.
Unusual kinds of subject verb agreement
English speakers often make nouns plural when they add an –s to the end of the word. For example, cat becomes cats; dog becomes dogs; house becomes houses.
But English speakers do not always consider nouns that end in –s to be plural. In fact, we gave you an example just a short time ago:
The news, in fact, is full of strange cases of subject-verb agreement.
English speakers use news with a singular verb
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