True or false: subject and verb must agree
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- 'I am' is correct in the present tense.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- 'We are' is correct in the present tense.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- 'He are' is correct in the present tense.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- 'They were' is correct in the past tense.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- 'I were' is the ordinary past indicative.
Explanation
Number decides the form as much as time does. Source: An English Grammar, Baskervill and Sewell (1896), public domain.