Rules for Subject-Verb Agreement Questions – 

• It is important to have basic knowledge of English grammar as here you need to know all the basic verbs and grammar formulas.
• Indefinite pronouns like everyone, someone, each one, anybody, somebody, anybody, and more always take singular verbs with them.
• In a sentence, if the subjects are united by ‘either or’ or ‘neither nor’, plus are of dissimilar persons, the verb is compulsory to agree in person as well as a number with its neighbouring noun.
• With words like a number of, many, etc. always take plural form with it. On the other hand ‘the number of’ will always remain singular as it speaks about ‘the’, used for a specific thing.
• The verb becomes plural when there are two subjects combined by “and.”
• The verb becomes singular when there are two nouns in singular forms combined by ‘and’, stating a single person or thing.

The easiest and basic rules for subject-verb agreement is:-

Root Rule– A singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject takes a plural verb.

For Example-

• The list of grocery items is/are on the dining table.
• • Here list is the subject which is singular, so we choose ‘is’ as the verb.

• The lists of every items are kept on the dining table
  • Here, the ‘lists’ is the plural subject, hence we take ‘are’.

•  Here we have some practice questions for Subject-Verb Agreement –