Subject Verb Agreement The Subject is the word or phrase that says what the sentence is about. It performs the action described by the verb. Example: Subj. The music is wonderful. Noun A Complete Subject consists of a subject and all of its modifiers. Example: The songs Michael Watts plays sound very slow. A Verb establishes the action in a sentence or expresses state of being. Example: verb 50 Cent performed last week in Chicago. A verb, its modifiers and complements are known as the predicate of a sentence. Example: complete subj. predicate The concert performed by The G-Unit would have continued on throughout the night. Person is a way of classifying personal pronouns in sentences. 1st person: the speaker (I, we, etc…) 2nd person: the one spoken to (you, etc…) 3rd person: the one spoken about (he, she, it, they, etc…) Number is the form a word takes to indicate whether it is singular or plural. Agreement: Nouns and verbs are said to agree in number. This means that with a singular subject in the third person (i.e. he, she and it), a verb in the present tense ordinarily adds an ‘s’ to its base form. With plural subjects in the third person, the base form of the verb is used.