Which sentence correctly uses subject-verb agreement?
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Which sentence correctly uses subject-verb agreement?
Answer: C. The dogs run in the park every morning. — ConceptSubject–verb agreement means that a finite verb must match its subject in person and number. In the simple present, a third-person singular subject…
- A.
The dog are running in the park every morning.
- B.
The dog run in the park every morning.
- C.
The dogs run in the park every morning.
- D.
The dogs runs in the park every morning.
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Correct answer: C
Concept
Subject–verb agreement means that a finite verb must match its subject in person and number.
In the simple present, a third-person singular subject takes a verb ending in -s, while a plural subject takes the base verb. In the present progressive, a third-person singular noun subject such as ‘the dog’ takes ‘is’, while a plural noun subject such as ‘the dogs’ takes ‘are’; the pronouns ‘I’ and ‘you’ use ‘am’ and ‘are’ respectively.
Application
Identify the subject and verb in each sentence. In ‘The dogs run in the park every morning,’ the subject ‘dogs’ is third-person plural and the simple-present verb is the base form ‘run’. The two forms agree.
Contrast
‘The dog are running …’ pairs the singular subject ‘dog’ with the plural auxiliary ‘are’.
‘The dog run …’ pairs the singular subject ‘dog’ with the uninflected present form ‘run’.
‘The dogs run …’ pairs the plural subject ‘dogs’ with the uninflected present form ‘run’.
‘The dogs runs …’ pairs the plural subject ‘dogs’ with the third-person singular present form ‘runs’.
Cross-check
Replace ‘dogs’ with the pronoun ‘they’: ‘They run in the park every morning.’ This confirms the plural base-verb pattern.
Therefore, the sentence ‘The dogs run in the park every morning’ has correct subject–verb agreement.