Unit 7.2
Verb Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns
Print This Post
Advertising
Introduction
The subject and verb agreement is a situation in which the subject and a verb accord in number.
With verb agreement also indefinite pronouns are followed by singular verbs.
Form
The indefinite pronouns are always singular, so they always take singular verbs.
The indefinite pronouns are: no one, nobody, someone, somebody.
Example
- No one attends their wedding.
No one from here likes a rocky scenery. - Nobody wears boots during summer.
Nobody enjoyed this horrible day. - Somebody deletes unnecessary files regularly.
Somebody needs to help them with the flood in their apartment. - Someone gets up early every day in that house.
Someone loves gardening and someone not.
Use
We use different indefinite pronouns. Their meaning is:
- no one: no person, nobody;
- nobody: no person, not anyone;
- somebody: some person who is unidentified;
- someone: to address a single person which we do not know, or which is not specified.
Summary
According to subject and verb agreement, also singular indefinite pronouns such as someone, no one, nobody and somebody are followed by singular verbs.
For example:
— “No one forgets what happened that night.” = No one is a singular subject and the verb that follows it gets an -s.
Let’s revise this content within the {Form} section. Take a look at the {Example} section that shows its use within a context.
Exercises
Content Rating
Please, tell us how to improve the content here.
What did you think of our explanations and exercises?
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading...Ambassadors
Open TextBooks are collaborative projects, with people from all over the world bringing their skills and interests to join in the compilation and dissemination of knowledge to everyone and everywhere.
Become an Ambassador and write your textbooks.
Online Teaching
Become a Books4Languages Online tutor & teacher.
More information here about how to be a tutor.
