EST1501 QUESTION 1: ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE
1.1 A subject is the person, place, thing, or idea that the sentence is about. A verb is the action word or the state-of-being word in the sentence.
1.2 Two common subject-verb agreement mistakes are:
- Using a plural verb with a singular subject(e.g., She go to school instead of She goes to school).
- Being confused by intervening words or phrases(e.g., The bouquet of flowers smell nice instead of smells nice).
1.3 Subject: The
tomatoes Verb: give
1.4 The sentence is incorrect because the subject “many people” is plural, but the verb “was” is singular. It should be: “There were too many people in that hall.”
