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Subject Verb Agreement

When the subject of a sentence is composed of two or more nouns or pronouns connected by and, use a plural verb. She and her friends are at the fair.

When two or more singular nouns or pronouns are connected by or or nor, use a singular verb The book or the pen is in the drawer

When a compound subject contains both a singular and a plural noun or pronoun joined by or nor, the verb should agree with the part of the subject that is nearer the verb.

Doesn't is a contraction of does not and should be used only with a singular subject. Don't is a contraction of do not and should be used only with a plural subject. The exception to this rule appears in the case of the first person and second person pronouns I and you.


 * || ==Aaron's parelel structure notes== ||  ||
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3. || parelle structures are: examples
 * 1) A parallel structure mostly helps readers kind of know what will happen latter on in the story
 * 2) Ideas that are being compared should be parallel
 * 3) Another way of thinking of a parallel structures is a thesis or the topic sentence of a storie
 * 4) A perellel structure can also be known as something that writers use to compare similar ideas
 * 5)  as a clause
 * 1) Subheadings should also be parallel
 * 2) Instruction should be parellel because they are are leading in to the other steps ||   ||
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