Lesson 4 - Subject/Verb Agreement - Plural Nouns and Pronouns I, We, You, They

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Assessed Skills from Tennessee Blueprint - 6th Grade

Identify sentences with correct subject-verb agreement (person/number) within context.

Identify the correct use of the following within context:

·1 nouns (i.e., common/proper, singular/plural, possessives);

·2 pronouns (i.e., agreement, subject, object);

·3 verbs (i.e., action/linking, regular/irregular, agreement);

·1 adjectives (i.e., common/proper, comparative forms);

·2 adverbs (i.e., comparative forms).

Developing Skills from Tennessee Blueprint - 6th Grade

Use verbs appropriately (e.g., agree with the subject in person and number, action verbs that take objects, linking verbs, helping verbs, verb phrases, verb tenses, and regular and irregular verb forms).

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In Lesson 5 you will learn to correctly make subjects and verbs agree when the subjects are plural.

Subjects and verbs must work together. They must agree. A verb that does not end in a single s, es, or ies is used with a plural noun or with the pronoun subject - I, we, you, or they.

Examples:

carrots taste The carrots from Sparks taste delicious.
bikes operate The bikes operate even without gasoline.
I feel I feel Tick is about to cause trouble.
we dine We dine on many new and exciting foods.
you throw You throw the stone farther than I do.
they run They run between the two different jobs.

Special Rules

Doon and the people from Ember work on digging the toilets.

Neither Lina or the others finish one chore before Dr. Hester would think of another for them to do.

Lina and Doon talk to each other about the roamer.

Practice 
Part A  -  Circle the correct verb that agrees with each plural noun subject.
  1. The teams (work, works) for the people of Sparks. 
  2. Lina and Mrs. Murdo (say, says) they will be working for Dr. Hester.
  3. The work leaders (bring, brings) tools.
  4. Lizzie Bisco and Allie Bright (help, helps) Tick work.
  5. Tick or his friends (go, goes) to the village every day to help work.
Part B  -  Circle the correct verb that agrees with each singular or plural subject. 
  1. Ben Barlow (organize, organizes) the residents of the Pioneer Hotel into teams.
  2. Doon's team (include, includes) his father, two teachers, Clary Laine, and Edward Pocket.
  3. Martha's family (act, acts) kind towards their visitors.
  4. Steamy vegetables (smell, smells) delicious.
  5. Aromas (drift, drifts) across the room. 
  6. Miss Thorn (pick, picks) delicately at her food. She (make, makes) a polite comment now and then.
  7. There carrots (taste, tastes) delicious. Martha (pickle, pickles) them.
  8. They (work, works) all afternoon. The Emberites (dig, digs) holes six feet deep.
  9. Doon's pulse (quicken, quickens) when Tick sits down beside him.
  10. Tick (throw, throws) a rock into the river.
Part C - Multiple Choice

  1. Which of the following is written correctly?

    1. Several days passes.

    2. Lina and Mrs. Murdo stays with Poppy all the time.

    3. Dr. Hester see patients in the village.

    4. Cuts, sprains, rashes, and illnesses trouble the people of Sparks.
       

  2. Which of the following sentences does not contain a mistake?

    1. Roamers collects items from old farm houses.

    2. They go out into the Empty Lands and bring things back.

    3. Martha trade her goods for food.

    4. One roamer searchs for jewels.
       

  3. Choose the answer that is written correctly.

    1. A large cardboard box hold soap flakes.

    2. Dozens of people bids for these.

    3. In minutes everything sells.

    4. When the roamer brings out a handful of jewels, Lina gasp.
       

  4. Which of the following sentences does not contain a mistake?

    1. Bikes provide a means for the people to travel.

    2. Neither the front or the back tires goes around.

    3. Lina spend the afternoon learning to ride.

    4. The weedy vines weaves among the spokes of the bike's tires.
       

  5. Choose the answer that is written correctly.

    1. Birds comes in many different colors.

    2. Many worries troubles Lina.

    3. The other boys follows Tick.

    4. The sun goes down gradually.

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Answer Key

Part A  -  Circle the correct verb that agrees with each plural noun subject.
  1. work
  2. say
  3. bring
  4. help
  5. go 
Part B  -  Circle the correct verb that agrees with each singular or plural subject.
  1. organizes
  2. includes
  3. acts
  4. smell
  5. drift
  6. picks, makes
  7. taste, pickles
  8. work, dig
  9. quickens
  10. throws 
Part C - Multiple Choice

  1. d

  2. b

  3. c

  4. a

  5. d