SUBJECT PREDICATE
Every complete sentence has two parts - Subject and Predicate
Subject - Subject is the person or thing that performs an action or the doer of the action. A subject is a person/s or thing/s that is the focus of the sentence. Or in other words, it tells what the sentence is about.
Predicate - Predicate is the rest part of a sentence that modifies a subject. This part of the sentence contains the action. The predicate tells what the subject does or what happens to the subject.
A sentence can contain one or more subjects and predicates.
Example: 1. Sweet carrots grow underground.
here Sweet carrots - subject ; grow underground - predicate.
2. River Brahmaputra flows through India.
River Brahmaputra - subject ; flows through India - predicate.
3. I love apples.
I - subject ; love apples - predicate
4. Madhu, Sunil and Shyam watched the movie.
Madhu, Sunil and Shyam - subject ; watched the movie - predicate.
5. Rajesh cooked food and cleaned the dishes
Rajesh - subject ; cooked food and cleaned the dishes - predicate.
SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
If a subject is singular, the verb form must also be singular.
Example: Ship sails in the sea.
Likewise, if a subject is plural, the verb must also be plural.
Example: Ships sail in the sea.
| Sachin play cricket every day. ( incorrect ) | |
| Sachin plays cricket every day. (correct) |
| We play cricket every day. (correct) | |
| We plays cricket every day. (incorrect) |
| Sachin and Ajit plays together. (incorrect) | |
| Sachin and Ajit play together. (correct) |
Some nouns like trousers, scissors, pants, etc. always use a plural verb.
but Mass nouns like civics, mathematics, dollars, measles, and news which cannot be counted, use singular verbs.
Collective nouns like class, committee, family, group, etc take on singular verbs.
Each, each one, either, neither, everyone, everybody, anybody, anyone, nobody, somebody, someone, and no one as words which are singular in nature and therefore will always use a singular verb.
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