But there’s another coordinating conjunction that causes even more subject-verb-agreement problems: or. These problems crop up when one of the nouns coordinated with “or” is plural and the ...

Although English-language verbs generally don’t inflect or change in form to agree with the subject in number, they do so in the present tense, third-person singular. In English grammar, in this ...

One of the earliest and most useful grammar rules in English is that a verb should always agree with its subject in both person and number.Stated more simply, singular subjects should take verbs in ...