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 ...

I recently fielded questions about two subject-verb agreement errors that readers noticed in the media. One was heard on an NPR program. The other was committed by, um, a columnist who should have ...

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 ...