Page 1 3 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT 41 In this unit you will learn about the relationship between a subject and its verb. We need to work on this, because students often make mistakes in identifying whether the subject noun is singular or plural. As a result, mistakes are made in the use of verbs to go with words like jeans, scissors, politics etc. This unit deals with these areas. A. Subject - Singular, Plural or Uncountable A.1. Read the following dialogue. First, underline the word or words that represent the subject in each sentence of the dialogue. Then circle the verbs that each subject refers to. (One has been done for you as an example) Is it true that the students from the Space Research Centre this evening? are arriving I agree. The constellation they are going to observe is clearly visible from here. What about the team supervisor? Is he coming? No, their manager called this morning. The supervisor is busy making arrangements for the committee which is to arrive tomorrow. I have heard that he is going to join politics. Yes, this news is true. But honesty is his policy and politics is a corrupt game these days. Yes, the study they are conducting needs an elevated location like our campus. Yes, but that does not mean that good people should not join politics. Yes, you are right. When the pick-up bus that we have sent to the railway station arrives here, we may need help to shift the luggage which, I presume, is going to be very heavy. Page 2 3 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT 41 In this unit you will learn about the relationship between a subject and its verb. We need to work on this, because students often make mistakes in identifying whether the subject noun is singular or plural. As a result, mistakes are made in the use of verbs to go with words like jeans, scissors, politics etc. This unit deals with these areas. A. Subject - Singular, Plural or Uncountable A.1. Read the following dialogue. First, underline the word or words that represent the subject in each sentence of the dialogue. Then circle the verbs that each subject refers to. (One has been done for you as an example) Is it true that the students from the Space Research Centre this evening? are arriving I agree. The constellation they are going to observe is clearly visible from here. What about the team supervisor? Is he coming? No, their manager called this morning. The supervisor is busy making arrangements for the committee which is to arrive tomorrow. I have heard that he is going to join politics. Yes, this news is true. But honesty is his policy and politics is a corrupt game these days. Yes, the study they are conducting needs an elevated location like our campus. Yes, but that does not mean that good people should not join politics. Yes, you are right. When the pick-up bus that we have sent to the railway station arrives here, we may need help to shift the luggage which, I presume, is going to be very heavy. 42 CBSE A.2. A subject can be Therefore, all nouns can be either or A.3. List the subjects from the dialogues in A1 under the following headings. One has been done as an example countable uncountable Non mass Eg. machinery Mass e.g. coffee coal sugar COUNTABLE SINGULAR COUNTABLE PLURAL UNCOUNTABLE students singular - e.g. a pen, a body, a box plural - e.g. children, plates, boxes uncountable - e.g. furniture, sugar Page 3 3 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT 41 In this unit you will learn about the relationship between a subject and its verb. We need to work on this, because students often make mistakes in identifying whether the subject noun is singular or plural. As a result, mistakes are made in the use of verbs to go with words like jeans, scissors, politics etc. This unit deals with these areas. A. Subject - Singular, Plural or Uncountable A.1. Read the following dialogue. First, underline the word or words that represent the subject in each sentence of the dialogue. Then circle the verbs that each subject refers to. (One has been done for you as an example) Is it true that the students from the Space Research Centre this evening? are arriving I agree. The constellation they are going to observe is clearly visible from here. What about the team supervisor? Is he coming? No, their manager called this morning. The supervisor is busy making arrangements for the committee which is to arrive tomorrow. I have heard that he is going to join politics. Yes, this news is true. But honesty is his policy and politics is a corrupt game these days. Yes, the study they are conducting needs an elevated location like our campus. Yes, but that does not mean that good people should not join politics. Yes, you are right. When the pick-up bus that we have sent to the railway station arrives here, we may need help to shift the luggage which, I presume, is going to be very heavy. 42 CBSE A.2. A subject can be Therefore, all nouns can be either or A.3. List the subjects from the dialogues in A1 under the following headings. One has been done as an example countable uncountable Non mass Eg. machinery Mass e.g. coffee coal sugar COUNTABLE SINGULAR COUNTABLE PLURAL UNCOUNTABLE students singular - e.g. a pen, a body, a box plural - e.g. children, plates, boxes uncountable - e.g. furniture, sugar 43 CBSE A.4. Work in pairs and decide whether the following are countable singular (cs), countable plural (cp) or uncountable (uc). Write the symbols under each circle. One has been done as an example A.5. Some nouns look as if they are plural, but are in fact singular. Some other school and university subjects work in the same way. Guess which subjects these are from the clues. feet cp person news oxen tooth goose coffee gentlemen knife oil boxes furniture Economics is an important subject at Senior Secondary level. Clue 2 E = mc 1+1 = 2 Subject .............................................. .............................................. Page 4 3 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT 41 In this unit you will learn about the relationship between a subject and its verb. We need to work on this, because students often make mistakes in identifying whether the subject noun is singular or plural. As a result, mistakes are made in the use of verbs to go with words like jeans, scissors, politics etc. This unit deals with these areas. A. Subject - Singular, Plural or Uncountable A.1. Read the following dialogue. First, underline the word or words that represent the subject in each sentence of the dialogue. Then circle the verbs that each subject refers to. (One has been done for you as an example) Is it true that the students from the Space Research Centre this evening? are arriving I agree. The constellation they are going to observe is clearly visible from here. What about the team supervisor? Is he coming? No, their manager called this morning. The supervisor is busy making arrangements for the committee which is to arrive tomorrow. I have heard that he is going to join politics. Yes, this news is true. But honesty is his policy and politics is a corrupt game these days. Yes, the study they are conducting needs an elevated location like our campus. Yes, but that does not mean that good people should not join politics. Yes, you are right. When the pick-up bus that we have sent to the railway station arrives here, we may need help to shift the luggage which, I presume, is going to be very heavy. 42 CBSE A.2. A subject can be Therefore, all nouns can be either or A.3. List the subjects from the dialogues in A1 under the following headings. One has been done as an example countable uncountable Non mass Eg. machinery Mass e.g. coffee coal sugar COUNTABLE SINGULAR COUNTABLE PLURAL UNCOUNTABLE students singular - e.g. a pen, a body, a box plural - e.g. children, plates, boxes uncountable - e.g. furniture, sugar 43 CBSE A.4. Work in pairs and decide whether the following are countable singular (cs), countable plural (cp) or uncountable (uc). Write the symbols under each circle. One has been done as an example A.5. Some nouns look as if they are plural, but are in fact singular. Some other school and university subjects work in the same way. Guess which subjects these are from the clues. feet cp person news oxen tooth goose coffee gentlemen knife oil boxes furniture Economics is an important subject at Senior Secondary level. Clue 2 E = mc 1+1 = 2 Subject .............................................. .............................................. 44 CBSE Work in pairs and complete the following spider diagrams, a, b and c. All the words will be related to the word in the centre. Some clues are given. a. b. c. Now, complete the sentence : dramatics ae ................c..... gy...................s ec ......................... statistics elec .......................s Subjects dia....................s ra.......................s mu.................p..... tuberculosis me.................... rickets diseases c......d......s d...............ts ath................. skittles bi......l.................... t.........n............ games/ spots All the above nouns look like plurals (i.e. they end in s.) But they are, in fact, singular nouns For these nouns we use a ……………… verb. Page 5 3 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT 41 In this unit you will learn about the relationship between a subject and its verb. We need to work on this, because students often make mistakes in identifying whether the subject noun is singular or plural. As a result, mistakes are made in the use of verbs to go with words like jeans, scissors, politics etc. This unit deals with these areas. A. Subject - Singular, Plural or Uncountable A.1. Read the following dialogue. First, underline the word or words that represent the subject in each sentence of the dialogue. Then circle the verbs that each subject refers to. (One has been done for you as an example) Is it true that the students from the Space Research Centre this evening? are arriving I agree. The constellation they are going to observe is clearly visible from here. What about the team supervisor? Is he coming? No, their manager called this morning. The supervisor is busy making arrangements for the committee which is to arrive tomorrow. I have heard that he is going to join politics. Yes, this news is true. But honesty is his policy and politics is a corrupt game these days. Yes, the study they are conducting needs an elevated location like our campus. Yes, but that does not mean that good people should not join politics. Yes, you are right. When the pick-up bus that we have sent to the railway station arrives here, we may need help to shift the luggage which, I presume, is going to be very heavy. 42 CBSE A.2. A subject can be Therefore, all nouns can be either or A.3. List the subjects from the dialogues in A1 under the following headings. One has been done as an example countable uncountable Non mass Eg. machinery Mass e.g. coffee coal sugar COUNTABLE SINGULAR COUNTABLE PLURAL UNCOUNTABLE students singular - e.g. a pen, a body, a box plural - e.g. children, plates, boxes uncountable - e.g. furniture, sugar 43 CBSE A.4. Work in pairs and decide whether the following are countable singular (cs), countable plural (cp) or uncountable (uc). Write the symbols under each circle. One has been done as an example A.5. Some nouns look as if they are plural, but are in fact singular. Some other school and university subjects work in the same way. Guess which subjects these are from the clues. feet cp person news oxen tooth goose coffee gentlemen knife oil boxes furniture Economics is an important subject at Senior Secondary level. Clue 2 E = mc 1+1 = 2 Subject .............................................. .............................................. 44 CBSE Work in pairs and complete the following spider diagrams, a, b and c. All the words will be related to the word in the centre. Some clues are given. a. b. c. Now, complete the sentence : dramatics ae ................c..... gy...................s ec ......................... statistics elec .......................s Subjects dia....................s ra.......................s mu.................p..... tuberculosis me.................... rickets diseases c......d......s d...............ts ath................. skittles bi......l.................... t.........n............ games/ spots All the above nouns look like plurals (i.e. they end in s.) But they are, in fact, singular nouns For these nouns we use a ……………… verb. 45 CBSE Rickety Ron is a student of statistics, which for many years………….. been his favourite subject. Ron has always loved playing with numbers. Dramatics…………………… his life but every time he takes a role for stage acting, he's mysteriously down with mumps. Mumps …………………… always been his undoing! Ron is no good at games and opts for the least exerting sports of all. So, for him, it's skittles, darts and cards. Cards …………………….. his favourite, though! He loves aerobics too. Aerobics, to him, ………………… both relaxation and entertainment. RICKETY RON A.6. Fill in the blanks with appropriate verbs to complete this biography of Rickety Ron. A.7. Work in pairs. Take turns to ask and answer the following. Questions Answers Example:1. What are shears used for? 1. They are used ………………........... ................................................... 2. Have you got the binoculars? 2. No,...…………….them……………… ................................................... 3. What are pliers made of? 3. They.………………………………….. ................................................... 4. How much….…………..……… 4. ……………………….. cost.............. …..……………………….……..? ................................................... 5. Are your socks………………... 5. Yes, …………………………………... …………………………………..? ................................................... 6. What are tongs used for? 6. …………. are.………………………… ................................................... 7. Are your ……………………….. 7. My goggles...………………………… .………………………………….? ...................................................Read More
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