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A Remedial English Grammar
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CHAPTERS

• ARTICLES
• AGREEMENT OF VERB AND SUBJECT
• CONCORD OF NOUNS, PRONOUNS AND POSSESSIVE
  ADJECTIVES
• CONFUSION OF ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
• DIFFICULTIES WITH COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVES
• CONFUSION OF PARTICIPLES ACTIVE PASSIVE
• PREPOSITIONS
• NEGATIVE VERBS
• TENSES 1, 2 3
• THE INFINITIVE

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• A verb must agree with its subject in number and
  person.
• For present tense forms most English verbs end in
  s in the third person singular, but there is no
  s on the third person plural.
• E.g. He walks They walk.
• In forms of primary auxiliary be (where
  different words are used), do, the singular
  ending can also be es. Modal auxiliaries can,
  may, must, ought, will, shall do not attach s
  form.
• E.g. He goes They go He can do it They will
  do it.

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• 2. When the subject is one of, followed by plural
  noun, the verb is singular.
• E.g. One of my teachers lives next door to my
  aunt.
• 3. If a clause (a long group of words) which
  separates the subject from the verb, care is
  necessary to remember the actual subject-word so
  as to make the verb agree with it.
• E.g. The radio which you gave my children works
  perfectly.

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• 4. When the subject consists of two or more
  nouns, it has the force of a plural and hence a
  plural verb.
• E.g. John and Mary have gone for a holiday.
• But if the item given suggests a compound of one
  thing or one unit, then the subject is taken as
  singular and hence a singular verb.
• E.g. Bread and butter is a wholesome food.
• Cow and calf was once a party symbol.

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• 5. When a plural number applies to distances,
  weights, heights or amounts of money (which
  represent a single figure or quantity) it is
  treated as a singular.
• E.g. Ten kilometers is not a great distance.
• 6. Titles of books, hotels, house which indicate
  plural meaning, however do take only singular
  since the reference is to a book, building etc.
• E.g. The Spencers is a big shop.

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• 7. The introductory there in a sentence is
  just a dummy subject. The verb actually agrees
  with real subject in the statement.
• E.g. There are some apples in the basket.
• There is an apple in the basket.