Introduction to agreement | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hi grammarians today I want to talk
about this idea in English that we call
agreement so I'm going to teach you how
to be agreeable and make it so that all
of your sentences get along really well
let me let me give you an example the
dog barks as opposed to the dog's bark
you see the difference it's funny
because the S seems to seems to migrate
seems to move from one part of the
sentence to the other so what you
wouldn't say is the dog bark that
doesn't work and you wouldn't say the
dogs barks I know that's that seems
strange that you wouldn't want to have
the s follow the other s but you
actually only want to have one of these
in a sentence so the dog barks the dogs
bark when there's only one of something
strangely in the present you know in the
present tense it takes this s so Jake
bakes a cake we bake a cake not Jake
bake a cake which admittedly is a fun
sentence to say but this is not in
standard English this is not correct it
doesn't it doesn't exhibit what we call
agreement similarly you also wouldn't
say we bakes okay if you're familiar
with the Lord of the Rings books or
movies if you remember Gollum the
character Gollum is a weird little
bug-eyed critter it was just kind of
obsessed with the One Ring he has this
very particular way of speaking that is
not strictly speaking standard just wild
about that ring and the way he refers to
everything is he just throws on an S on
the end of every word he uses every verb
so if he's talking about
you know mmm this is magic ring that
he's very fond of which he calls the
precious he wouldn't just say I love it
he'd say I love is it like so and that's
not correct that does not but does not
show agreement so the test here is
really you can figure out whether or not
you are using agreement in your
sentences if you sound like Gollum
because if Gollum were being grammatical
he would say I love it so this is this
is the sense that I want you to develop
is you listen to yourself speak and you
ask do I sound like Gollum the ring
monster because if you do sound like
Gollum then you're probably not
operating under the agreement rules of
standard American English or you're just
doing a Gollum impression that's the
basic idea behind agreement is you just
want to make sure that that the parts of
the sentence match up sentence parts
match they agree they get along they
work you can learn anything Dave it out