<p>Subject Verb Agreement Rules:</p><p>1) Singular nouns have plural verbs and plural nouns have singular verbs</p><p>2) IS goes with singular nouns and ARE goes with plural nouns</p><p>3) Watch out for nouns that come after their verbs</p><p>4) Always find the noun that is doing the action in question – look to see whether it is singular or plural</p><p>5) Nouns inside prepositional phrases cannot be the subject of a sentence.</p><p>6) Nouns inside nonessential parts of a sentence cannot be the subject of a sentence</p><p> a. Introductory phrases</p><p> b. Nonessential information in the middle of a sentence</p><p> c. A conclusion statement</p><p>7) Has goes with singular, have goes with plural</p><p>8) Compound nouns always have plural verbs. A compound noun is two or more nouns connected by an “and.”</p>