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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Concord

please what are the rules of concord?
  

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Mostly: singular subjects take singular verbs. CONCORD: Correspondence in number, case, gender, person, or some other formal category between syntactically connected words, esp. between one or more subordinate words and the word or words upon which they depend; selection by one word of the matching formal subclass, or category, in another word syntactically construed with the first.

  • Mostly: singular subjects take singular verbs.
  • CONCORD: Correspondence in number, case, gender, person, or some other formal category between syntactically connected words, esp.
  • between one or more subordinate words and the word or words upon which they depend; selection by one word of the matching formal subclass, or category, in another word syntactically construed with the first.
  • Number: The boy is / the boys are Case: She saw him (NOT 'Her saw he'') Gender: The boy wore his (NOT 'her') hat.
  • Person: I held my (not 'their') breath.
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Mostly: singular subjects take singular verbs.

CONCORD: Correspondence in number, case, gender, person, or some other formal category between syntactically connected words, esp. between one or more subordinate words and the word or words upon which they depend; selection by one word of the matching formal subclass, or category, in another word syntactically construed

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