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English: conventions of standard English

Agreement: subject–verb and pronoun

English: conventions of standard English · Lesson 4 of 5

Lesson 4 of 5

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Unit 3

English: conventions of standard English

5 lessons · 6 h 50 min of study

Sentence boundaries: fragments, run-ons and comma splices1 h 30 min of study
Sentence formation: parallelism, modifiers and shifts1 h 20 min of study
Punctuation: commas, semicolons, colons, dashes and apostrophes1 h 40 min of study
Agreement: subject–verb and pronounReading · 0%
Verb forms, adjectives vs adverbs and idioms1 h 10 min of study

This unit is ≈11% of the ACT, across 5 lessons. Full syllabus

Lesson 4 of 5 · English: conventions of standard English

Agreement: subject–verb and pronoun

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Make verbs agree with their subjects across intervening phrases, inverted order, compound subjects, collective nouns and indefinite pronouns
Make pronouns agree in number and person with a clear antecedent
Choose the correct pronoun case (subject, object, possessive, reflexive; who or whom)
Eliminate ambiguous, vague or missing pronoun references

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