Grammar tip: subject-verb agreement

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Subject-verb agreement

Simply means that a plural subject needs a plural form of a verb, and similarly a singular subject needs a singular form of the verb.

For example, we always say 'the birds sing', not “the bird sing”.

But subject-verb agreement isn’t always so simple.

For example, take the phrase 'The troupe of actors have arrived in town'.

Sounds right, but it should be: ‘A troupe of actors has arrived in town'...

because the thing that’s arriving is a single 'troupe', not several actors. 

Careful readers will judge you for errors of subject-verb agreement. So watch out for it in your writing.

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