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Lesson 3: Writing: Grammar- Writing: Setting Up Ideas — Video Lesson
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- Writing: Strong Support — Video lesson
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- Writing: Relevant Information — Video lesson
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- Writing: Sequencing sentences — Video lesson
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- Writing: Transition Words — Video lesson
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- Writing: Transition Sentences — Video Lesson
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- Writing: Introductions — Video lesson
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- Writing: Interpreting Graphs and Data — Video lesson
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- Writing: Precision — Video Lesson
- Precise word choice | Quick guide
- Writing: Concision — Video lesson
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- Writing: Formal and Informal Language — Video Lesson
- Writing: Formal vs. casual language — Example
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- Writing: Syntax — Example
- Writing: Sentence Fragments — Video Lesson
- Writing: Sentence Boundaries — Example 1
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- Writing: Subordination and coordination — Example
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- Writing: Parallel Structure — Video lesson
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- Writing: Modifier Placement — Video Lesson
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- Writing: Verb Tense and Mood — Video Lesson
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- Writing: Pronoun Clarity — Video Lesson
- Writing: Pronoun clarity — Example
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- Writing: Pronoun Agreement — Video Lesson
- Writing: Pronoun-antecedent agreement — Example
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- Writing: Possessive determiners — Example 1
- Writing: Possessive determiners — Example 2
- Writing: It’s/Its Confusion — Video Lesson
- Confusion with "its" and "their" | Quick guide
- Writing: Subject-Verb Agreement — Video Lesson
- Writing: Subject-verb agreement — Example
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- Writing: Noun Agreement — Video Lesson
- Writing: Noun agreement — Basic example
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- Writing: Frequently Confused Words — Video Lesson
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- Writing: Conventional Expressions — Video Lesson
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- Writing: Logical Comparison — Video Lesson
- Writing: Logical comparison — Example
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- Writing: End-of-sentence punctuation — Example 1
- Writing: End-of-sentence punctuation — Example 2
- Writing: Commas — Video Lesson
- Commas | Quick guide
- Writing: Semicolons — Video Lesson
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- Writing: Colons — Video lesson
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- Writing: Possessive Pronouns — Example
- Writing: Possessive Nouns — Video Lesson
- Making nouns possessive | Quick guide
- Writing: Items in a series — Example
- Writing: Punctuating Lists — Video Lesson
- Lists and punctuation | Quick guide
- Writing: Nonrestrictive and parenthetical elements — Example
- Writing: Nonessential Elements — Video Lesson
- Nonessential elements | Quick guide
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Writing: Subject-verb agreement — Example
Watch Sal work through a harder subject-verb agreement question from the SAT Writing and Language Test.
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- could you make a video with more examples on it? we are learning this right now and I'm having trouble with it...(26 votes)
- On the Khan Academy Reading & Writing SAT section, there is a list of 5 question practices. It is called "Grammar and Effective Language Use." There is a section for Subject-Verb Agreement and you can use that to practice.(2 votes)
- But for the question, does "has rescued" work?(7 votes)
- Not as good. 'Has rescued' needs a period of time (for a long time) or a time in the past (since ....) to make sense.(7 votes)
- This was on one of the sat overview videos, however I was wondering if this is correct:
When any one of these changes occur, it is the result of careful planners.(2 votes)- The verb should be the singular "occurs" to agree with the simple subject "one";"changes" is NOT your subject, it is part of the prepositional phrase (of these changes) which modifies the simple subject "one."(6 votes)
- If "is rescuing" was a choice, will it be the correct one?(3 votes)
- Acceptable, but not the best answer. It would be better to still use "rescues", as the action happens "every year". When an action occurs repeatedly, we normally use the simple present tense. We use the present continuous tense for use in situations, where an action is occurring for a period of time (not necessarily regularly, probably only one time) and is happening right now at the moment of speaking.(2 votes)
- Real quick question.
If you are ever dealing with a subject verb agreement question, does the singular subject ALWAYS correlate with the plural verb. That's all I'm confused on: whether or not a singular subject matches with a plural verb or vice versa (plural subject goes with a singular verb). Appreciate it!(2 votes) - ....Given their importance and prominence...., the possessive pronoun their, followed by an and-phrase, when should we repeat the possessive pronoun, like their importance and their prominence?(1 vote)
- What form of the verb "is" would I use if I had a sentence like this?
Arsenal, a popular football club in the English Premier League, is on the verge of signing a new player.
Or
Arsenal, a popular football club in the English Premier League, are on the verge of signing a new player.
Thx to whoever answers this.(1 vote)- You should use "is" instead of "are"
The part between the commas is a description of "Arsenal". "A popular football club"means that Arsenal is a singular noun, so you should use "is".
Hope my answer is helpful...(1 vote)
- Can we use has have with singular ??(1 vote)
- I'll assume you mean singular pronouns. English verb forms usually have one version for 3rd person singular, and another version for all the rest. "Has" is used for 3rd person singular, and "have" is used for all the rest, including both singular (I have) and plural (My friends have).(1 vote)
- 'everyone' is a sigular subjecy?(1 vote)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] Borderlands Food Bank, an organization in Nogales, Arizona, rescue millions of pounds
of slightly imperfect imported food every year and then they underlined the verb rescue and we see all of the choices here are have rescued, are rescuing, rescues. So they're all different
forms of the verb rescue. So let's just think about it. Let's first think about, well,
what is doing the rescuing? So we see the thing
that's doing the rescuing is Borderlands Food Bank,
Borderlands Food Bank which is an organization
in Nogales, Arizona. Now, is Borderlands Food Bank
one thing or many things? Is it singular or is it plural? Well, we're only talking
about one organization. We're only talking about one food bank and so this right over here is singular. This is singular. It's not Borderlands Food Banks. Now, if you're not careful
when you see this s here, your brain might say oh, I'm
dealing with something plural but it's Borderlands Food Bank,
not Borderlands Food banks. So we have a singular subject here and now what about the verb? Is this the verb that we would
use for a singular subject? Would you say, would you say, let's say he, would you
say he rescue, he rescue or would you say he rescues? He, let me rewrite this, he rescues, he rescues food, he rescue food or would you write he rescues food? Rescues food. Well, if you have a singular subject, the singular form of the
verb rescue is rescues. So since we have a singular subject here, we wanna say Borderlands Food Bank, an organization in Nogales, Arizona, rescues millions of pounds
of slightly imperfect imported food every year. Rescue, this right over here, that is the plural form of the verb. So you would say they
rescue, they rescue food. If you have a plural subject,
if you have a plural subject then you would go with the rescue. So this is the plural form but you have a singular
subject so you don't want that, you want the singular form of the verb. Singular form of the verb. You want rescues. So you want rescues right here. So we already saw why we didn't want, why we definitely wanted to change it because it was the plural form and actually all of these
are also plural forms but just in different tenses. If you say have, have rescued, have, you don't say he have done something. You would say he has done something. You'd say they have done something. So this is still a plural
form and once again, you wouldn't say, you
wouldn't say he are rescuing. You would say they are rescuing. So this also is a plural form. So the first three choices
all have the plural form even though they're different
tenses, both plural form even though the subject is singular. This right over here
has the appropriate verb for a singular subject.