Subject Verb Agreement

    Subject Verb Agreement
    ________the news on at five or six?
    “News” is uncountable and is used with singular verbs.
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    Subject Verb Agreement
    Neither the Minister nor his colleagues ______________ given any explanation for this.
    Although singular verb is used with “neither…nor”, but in this case when one subject is singular and the other is plural, “Neither the Minister nor his colleagues”, we use the verb that agrees with the one before the blank.
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    Subject Verb Agreement
    Eight dollars __________ the price of a movie these days.
    Singular verb is used with money.
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    Subject Verb Agreement
    One of my best friends _____________ on leave this week.
    One is the subject and is singular.
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    Subject Verb Agreement
    One of my sisters _______ going on a trip to France.
    The subject of this sentence is ‘one,’ which is, of course, singular.
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