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2. Agreement (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Here are some special cases for subject–verb agreement in English: Always Singular. Indefinite pronouns like one, all, everyone, everything, everybody, nothing, nobody, anyone, anything, anybody, another, etc. are treated as singular. [5] (at least in formal written English) - All's well that ends well. - One sows, another reaps.

3. American and British English grammatical differences

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   Subject–verb agreement [ edit ] In British English (BrE), collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members, respectively; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree .

4. Comparison of American and British English - Wikipedia

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   4.1 Subject-verb agreement. 5 Style. ... Year 5 Third year junior 4th grade 10–11 Year 6 Fourth year junior 5th grade 11–12 Secondary school / High school

5. Attraction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   The tendency for plural nouns to elicit attraction more often is caused by a marking plurality as a feature, where singularity is considered part of the default, and that activation of the noun plurality marker is what attracts the plural verb form activation. [3] Agreement attraction not only appears with subject-verb agreement, but also with ...

6. Grammatical conjugation - Wikipedia

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   Verbal agreement, or concord, is a morpho-syntactic construct in which properties of the subject and/or objects of a verb are indicated by the verb form. Verbs are then said to agree with their subjects (resp. objects).

7. Subject (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   The object, in contrast, appears lower in the second tree, where it is a dependent of the non-finite verb. The subject remains a dependent finite verb when subject-auxiliary inversion occurs: Subjects 3. The prominence of the subject is consistently reflected in its position in the tree as an immediate dependent of the root word, the finite verb.

8. Inversion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Contrary to the subject-auxiliary inversion, the verb in cases of subject–verb inversion in English is not required to be an auxiliary verb; it is, rather, a full verb or a form of the copula be. If the sentence has an auxiliary verb, the subject is placed after the auxiliary and the main verb. For example: a. A unicorn will come into the ...

9. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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   Subject + Verb (transitive) + Indirect Object + Direct Object Example: She made me a pie. This clause pattern is a derivative of S+V+O, transforming the object of a preposition into an indirect object of the verb, as the example sentence in transformational grammar is actually "She made a pie for me".