Agreement

Compound Subjects & Correlatives

One subject, one verb is easy — until either, or, and neither team up to confuse you

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Indefinite-Pronoun Subjects (everyone/none/each)

Everyone feels singular but your brain keeps reaching for "their" — the agreement fight, settled

Roger Fielding 9 min read Agreement

Indefinite-Pronoun Subjects (everyone/none/each)

Everyone is here, or everyone are here? Learn which pronouns stay singular and which don't

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Quantities, Fractions & Measurements

Ten pounds is enough or are enough? Money, time and measurements that trick the verb

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Quantities, Fractions & Measurements

Two-thirds of the class is or are? Crack the rule for fractions and quantities for good

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There Is / There Are & Delayed Subjects

There's three reasons — or is it there are three reasons? The delayed-subject puzzle, unpicked

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There Is / There Are & Delayed Subjects

There's a bus coming, or is it there're? Learn how these swapped-round sentences really agree

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Attraction Errors (& with / as well as)

"The box of samples, along with the invoice, was..." — why nearby nouns hijack your verb

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Attraction Errors (& with / as well as)

The stack of books are mine looks right — spot the word tricking your verb

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Tricky Subjects (news, scissors, -ics, titles)

Is the news singular? Are scissors always plural? The odd nouns that don't play by the rules

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Tricky Subjects (news, scissors, -ics, titles)

The news are good looks right — learn which tricky words always stay singular

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Notional vs Formal Concord

Grammar says "none is"; everyone you know says "none are" — which one actually wins

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