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Week 2: Review Subject/Verb, Troubling words

Week 2: Review Subject/Verb, Troubling words. SUBJECT/VERB AGREEMENT. Agreement helps readers understand the relations between elements in a sentence. Subjects and verbs agree in number and person. Identify the subjects and their agreeing verbs in the sentences below.

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Week 2: Review Subject/Verb, Troubling words

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  1. Week 2: Review Subject/Verb, Troubling words

  2. SUBJECT/VERB AGREEMENT • Agreement helps readers understand the relations between elements in a sentence. Subjects and verbs agree in number and person. Identify the subjects and their agreeing verbs in the sentences below. • Pronouns and their antecedents agree in person, number, and gender: • Person: Illinoisans appreciate Sen. Durbin’s work for them. • Number: Each of the mother ducks was on her nest. • Gender: None of the women had her umbrella. Assignment in class: newsroom101.com, grammar exercises, subject/verb agreement practice #8

  3. A Test for Who vs. Whom in Subordinate Clauses • Locate the subordinate clause. • Few people know (who, whom) they should ask. • They are unsure (who, whom) makes the decision. • Rewrite the subordinate clause as a separate sentence, substituting a personal pronoun for who, whom. Choose the pronoun that sounds correct, and note its case: Use she/her, he/him, and they/them as personal pronoun substitutes When she/he/they works, the correct word is who or whoever. EXAMPLE: Few people know ____ should they ask. REWRITE: They should ask (she,her). When her/him/them works, the correct word is whom or whomever. EXAMPLE: They are unsure ____ makes the decision. REWRITE: (She, her) makes the decision.

  4. A Test for Who vs. Whom in Questions • Pose the question. • (Who, Whom) makes that decision? • (Who, Whom) does one ask? • Answer the question using a personal pronoun. • (She, Her) makes that decision. • One asks (she,her). • Use the same case (who or whom) in the question. Who makes that decision? Whom does one ask? Assignment in class: newsroom101.com, word usage, who and whom, all the questions

  5. Who/that/which • Who: Refers to persons. Only persons. Not animals! • That: Introduces an essential clause (not set off by commas, necessary for meaning) • Which: Introduces a non-essential clause (set off by commas, additional and non-essential information)

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