Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 109', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 764 The Grammär Book d. collective noun subject e. noncount noun subject f. third person singular present inflection g. the proximity principle h. the nonintervention principle 1. subject-verb agreement with a clausal subject The committee is composed of three employers and three employees. The committee are all against the bill. Oil floats on water. Fiona likes Philip to walk her home. Either Tom or you are to sign this contract. The discrepancy found in his pilot studies was ascribed to a computer bug. What we need to do is to choose a qualified director for the project. 2. 1 Unlike other verbs in English the copula be may be followed by adjective phrases. 2 Copula be behaves differently than other verbs in question formation and negation in that it behaves like an auxiliary verb and does not require the use of a do auxiliary. 3. Subject-verb agreement applies to all the forms of ia For all other verbs only third person singular forms in the present tense show an overt inflection. 4. The traditional subject-verb agreement rule is often not maintained in the following cases 1 the neither. nor construction with personal pronouns for example Neither you nor her were rather than was supposed to contact them. 2 in informal sentences beginning with there for example There Is rather than ore a desk and two chairs in the room. 5. a. Be often poses difficulties because it is an irregular verb. The form are is used to agree with both singular and plural second person pronoun subjects in English and thus should be used here. b. There should be subject-verb agreement in the present tense with a third person singular subject In this example the third person singular present tense morpheme is realized as -es in spelling and phonetically as the sound z . C. All English sentences have a copula before a predicate adjective phrase. In this case the first person singular verb amis needed. d. Subject-verb agreement does not apply to modal auxiliaries. e. Only third person singular .
