Walk This Way Now you know the main rules of agreement, so the
rest of this business must be a piece of cake. Not so fast.
Follow these three steps to check whether subjects and verbs in
your sentences really agree: - Find the sentence's subject. -
Figure out if the subject is singular or plural. - Select the
appropriate verb form to match the form of the subject. Quoth
the Maven The words there or here at the beginning of a sentence
often signal inverted word order. Here's where the problems
occur: - Figuring out what is the subject. - Figuring out if the
subject is singular or plural. - Selecting the appropriate verb
form to match the form of the subject. Let's look at each step
in the process. Remember that a predicate nominative is a noun
or pronoun that follows a linking verb. It renames or identifies
the subject. Hide and Seek Some subjects can be harder to find
than Judge Crater, Bigfoot, or Jimmy Hoffa. Foremost among these
hard-to-find subjects is the subject that has the nerve to come
after the verb