English Composition › Section F · The proposal › Topic F.3
Editing focus: subject-verb agreement
Readers of formal writing, proposals above all, expect every verb to match its subject. Agreement errors are easy to make in long sentences and easy to fix once you know where they hide.
In this topic
- What agreement means
- Finding the subject and the verb
- Words between subject and verb
- Compound subjects with and
- Compound subjects with or and nor
- When the verb comes first
- Indefinite pronouns
- Collective nouns, amounts and titles
- Worked example: editing a proposal paragraph
- Worked example: four tricky sentences
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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