Subject Verb Agreement
SBI-PO -2018
1. If 2 singular nouns are connected with and then Plural verb is used with them
2. IF 2 Singular nouns are connected with and then use singular verb in each and every is place before the noun.
3. If 2 singular noun –pronouns are connected with as well as, in addition to, besides, like, unlike, together with, led by, guided by, controlled by, governed by, rather than, no less than -verb according to first subject.
4. If 2 singular –not only –but also-Either-or- Neither nor- Verb is used 2nd subject.
5. Each of, one of, either of, neither of, every one of, then noun pronoun will be plural and singular verb is used with them.
· ANIL IS MUCH MORE INTELLIGENT THAN AMIT.
· EVERY BOY AND EVERY GIRL ARE IS GOING TO BRING AN APPLLE.
· EACH BOY AND EACH GIRL IS GOING TO BRING AN APPLE.
· THE STUDENTS ALONG WITH THEIR PARENTS HAVE ARRIVED.
· I NO LESS THAN YOU AM TO BE BLAMED FOR THIS.
EXERCISE:
1. He three friends,(a)/ Max included, was supposed to (b)/ meet for dinner later that night. (c)/ No error (d)
2. The number of students chosen (a)/for the prestigious medical internship (b)/ have more than doubled in the past fifteen years.(c)/ No error (d)
3. Without proper funding (a)/ and a better campaign strategy, there is (b)/ no chances that our candidate will be elected to office (c)/ No error (d) .
4. Some members of the tribe (a)/ has been protesting the recent (b)/ passage of hunting laws applying to indigenous populations.(c)/ No error (d)
5. The results of the study clearly (a)/ indicates a reduction in the number of use (b)/ able pounds that can be salvaged from an average ton of recycled goods.(c)/ No error (d)
6. The president of Costa Rica, along (a)/ with two vice presidents, (b)/ are elected for a four-year term by the people.(c)/ No error (d)
7. Neither of our school’s students (a)/ nominated for the national (b)/ spelling bee were able to win the competition.(c)/ No error (d)
8. The public are receiving the new mayor (a)/ well though she was (b)/ mostly unheard of prior to the election.(c)/ No error (d)
9. I am sure that (a) / neither the flat nor its contents (b) / is for sale (c) / No error (d)
10. In time of crisis (a)/ the Bhagavad Gita gives light (b) / and guide to the mind tortured by doubt (c) / and torn by conflict of duties. (d) / No error (e)
11. It was not easy for late Raja Ram Mohan Roy (a)/ to root out the custom of Sati (b) / because a majority of (c)/ the educated class does not support him. (d)/ No error (e)
12. On reaching the (a)/ lake, the leader realized (b) / that two elephant from (c)/ his herd were missing .(d)/ No error (e)
13. The builders have (a)/ promised a customer’s (b)/ that the construction will be (c)/ completed as soon as possible. (d) / No error (e)
14. Is there any difficulties (a)/ in disposing of this gorgeous building (b)/ built on such a spacious (c)/ and beautiful campus. (d) No error (e)
15. It is noticed that (a)/ the elite class have no soft (b)/ corner for the downtrodden who are the (c)/ real victim of the present social set-up. (d)/ No error (e)
Explanation:
1. (b)The subject of this sentence is friends which is plural. The phrase Max included is set off by commas and, like any “sandwich” phrase, can be crossed out to help isolate the subject and the main verb:
The three friends, Max included, was…
The plural subject friends does not agree with the singular verb was. We need the plural verb were.
2. (c) The phrase ‘The number of’ is a singular subject that does not agree with the plural verb have … doubled. We need the singular verb has…doubled.
3. (c) The introductory phrase ‘Without proper funding….. strategy ‘ does not affect subject-verb agreement in the main clause. The singular verb is does not agree with the plural subject chances. The correct idiom is there is no chance that, so we need the singular verb is and the singular noun chance.
4. (b) The plural subject ‘some members’ does not agree with the singular verb has been protesting.
Note that here, the subject is ‘Some members’, which is the same as saying ‘Some of the members’. This construction requires the plural verb ‘have been protesting’.
5.(b) The singular verb indicates does not agree with the plural subject, results. We need the plural verb indicate.
6. (c) The noun president is singular and does not agree with the plural verb ‘are’. We need the singular verb ‘is’.
7. (c) The singular subject ‘Neither’ does not agree with the plural verb ‘were’. We need the singular verb was.
8. (a) Public, although made up of individual members, functions as a singular group and thus takes a singular verb ‘is’. ‘Are’ is plural.
9. (c) Replace 'is' by 'are'
10. (c) Replace 'guide' by ' guides'
11. (d)Replace 'does' by 'did'
12. (c) Replace 'elephant' by 'elephants'
13. (b) Replace 'a customers' by 'customer'.
14. (a) Replace ‘is’ by ‘are’ because the main subject of the sentence is ‘ difficulties’.
15. (b) ‘has’ is used in place of ‘have’ because the elite class, the middle class etc are collective noun which are Singular.
