The example above implies that others, with the exception of Hannah, like to read comics. Therefore, the plural verb is the correct form to use. In contemporary times, names and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: 4. For composite subjects bound by or/nor, the verb corresponds to the subject closest to it. In this example, the jury acts as an entity; Therefore, the verb is singular. In last week`s column, I stated that the pronoun “she” and not “she” is the correct form of subject complement in this inverted sentence: “The winners of the contests were (them). I explained that the rule of operational grammar is that in English, a pronoun that acts as a complementary subject always takes the subjective form, whether the sentence is in its normative or inverted form. Subjects and verbs must be among them in numbers (singular or plural) together AGREE. So if a subject is singular, its verb must also be singular; If a subject is plural, its verb must also be plural. The normative or regular form of the inverted phrase “Were the winners of the contests” is naturally “They were the winners of the contests”, where there was a perfect subject-verbal agreement between the plural subject “them” and the paste tension, also pluralistic, “were” of the distorted verb. Always remember that the complement to the subject is the word or phrase that comes after the verb to identify or describe the subject of the sentence. Even if this is not a reversal of sentence, we must bear in mind that this rule of english subject-verb agreement generally applies even when the subject and the predicate of a sentence are different both in the form of nomal phrases (as opposed to subtantives or autonomous pronouns) as well as in numbers or persons. In such cases, the shape of the “be” link corresponds to the previous naming set – the rate on the left side of the sentence – even if this nov sentence is logically not subject.

In this example, politics is only a theme; Therefore, the sentence has a singular verb. 1. A sentence or clause between the subject and the verb does not change the subject`s number. In the example above, the plural corresponds to the actors of the subject. Note: In this example, the object of the sentence is even; That is why the verb must agree. (Because scissors are the subject of the preposition, scissors have no influence on the verb number.) However, be aware that in English, inverted sentences have a particularity of subject-verb agreement if the predicate is a name sentence and not just a simple name or pronoun. This feature is not obvious if there is no difference in numbers between the subject and the predicate, if the sentence is upside down “The winners of the contests were them” or in the normative “They were the winners of the contests”. In both sentences, the theme is plural (“the winners of the contests” and “them”), the verb is in the plural form (“were” and “were”), and the subject complement is also plural (“she” and “the winners of the contests”). But what happens when a normative phrase like, say, “your pre-court antiquities are an unnecessary complication” takes the opposite form? Let`s say or write instead: “An unnecessary complication are their pre-court antiquities” or “An unnecessary complication is their pre-trial”? 3.