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subject-verb agreementSubject-verb agreement is probably the most common mistake among non-native speakers of English, and even among native speakers.
Consult a grammar guide or one of the websites below to understand how to identify and help students fix these errors.
Subject Verb Agreement Web sites:
http://smccd.net/accounts/cow/sv_onl_inlab_ttl.htm
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/sv_agr.htm
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslsubverb.html
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/SubjectVerb.html
http://www.txstate.edu/slac/writing/Sv_agree.htm
Here is a sample response when you see several subject-verb agreement errors in a student's essay:
I noticed that you made several mistakes with subject-verb agreement. This is one of the most important errors for you to learn how to correct, because it can really interfere with your reader's understanding. Heres an example of a sentence you wrote that has this kind of error:
((insert actual student's sentence))
I have written S-V AGR next to a few other sentences that have problems.
Please go through each sentence and identify the subject and verb and check that they agree. If you don't know how to find the subject or verb in a sentence, the websites below can teaches you a great techniques and one has self-correcting exercises that can help you a lot.(I could fix these for you, but then you'd keep making the same mistakes again and again! It's better for you to learn to do it yourself.)
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