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Subject-Verb Agreement Videos 11 videos

ACT English 1.1 Grammar and Usage
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ACT English: Grammar and Usage Drill 1, Problem 1. What should replace the underlined word?

ACT English 1.2 Grammar and Usage
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ACT English: Grammar and Usage Drill 1, Problem 2. Does the underlined word match the subject and tense?

ACT English 1.3 Grammar and Usage
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ACT English: Grammar and Usage Drill 1, Problem 3. Which answer best matches the subject of the sentence?

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TSI Writing: Is the Word "Color" Singular or Plural? 3 Views


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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

Color are the most directly appealing element of interior design.


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All right Ready Shmoop person they were sentenced You to

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edit color are the most directly appealing element of interior

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design Okay come on Color are really a dash of

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burnt sienna hero splash of puce therein Voila That living

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room is just perfect If you clean up all the

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mess it's under yet martha stewart may be able to

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re decorate the heck out of an old farmhouse But

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what about a sentence that needs refurbishing like this one

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Does we need to match the singular subject color singular

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subject It's an it not a they with the singular

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verb is the rest is just you know curtains and

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lace not leather in legs that's a different song so

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that's it So the answer is b color is the

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most directly appealing element of interior design and leaving a

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subject verb agreement ice or just won't do so Yeah

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we get rid of a and we also don't want

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to swap out one clashing subject verb pair for another

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Like we haven't see their colors is yeah And then

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don't let a pair of worn out old commas indie

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they're fully a either and those still leave us with

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a clashing mess So that's It answers They were shmoop

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