SAT Writing and Language Drill 5.9 Conventions of Usage
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Conventions of Usage | Subject-verb agreement |
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SAT Writing | Standard English Conventions |
SAT Writing and Language | Standard English Conventions |
Standard English Conventions | Conventions of Usage |
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management environmental regulations in historic preservation Already fx employment growth
and continued use of the verb affects must be changed
to be a plural conjugation affect because the verb here
needs to agree with the plural subject issues right So
he issues they issue right He singular they were using
the singular verb affects makes it sound like only the
last item on the list is affecting employment growth so
it ain't no change The present participle affecting needs a
helper verbs like is to be grammatically correct So can't
be c the word already is a clue that sentences
about the present that doesn't make any sense to change
the verb to the future Sorry we're going to affect
you this way They were singular and we just affected 00:01:03.991 --> [endTime] you are we kind of affected and probably sorry