📝 Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz for IBPS Banking Exams

Master subject-verb agreement with our comprehensive quiz. Practice agreement rules and common errors essential for IBPS banking exams.

🎯 Quiz Overview

Quiz Details

• Total Questions: 20
• Time Allotted: 15 minutes
• Difficulty Level: Medium
• Topics Covered: Subject-verb agreement rules and applications

Key Topics

• Basic agreement rules
• Singular and plural subjects
• Compound subjects
• Indefinite pronouns
• Collective nouns
• Special cases and exceptions

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📚 Study Material for Subject-Verb Agreement

Basic Rules

Singular Subjects

• Rule: Singular subjects take singular verbs
• Examples:
  • The bank is open today.
  • She works efficiently.
  • He has completed the task.

Plural Subjects

• Rule: Plural subjects take plural verbs
• Examples:
  • The banks are open today.
  • They work efficiently.
  • We have completed the task.

Special Cases

Compound Subjects

• With ‘and’: Usually plural
  • The manager and the assistant are here.
• With ‘or/nor’: Verb agrees with closer subject
  • Neither the manager nor the assistants are here.
  • Neither the assistants nor the manager is here.

Indefinite Pronouns

• Always Singular: everyone, everybody, everything, someone, somebody, something, anyone, anybody, anything, no one, nobody, nothing, each, either, neither
  • Everyone is present.
  • Neither of them has arrived.
• Always Plural: both, few, many, several
  • Both are qualified.
  • Few have completed the form.

Collective Nouns

• Singular when acting as one unit: team, family, committee, audience
  • The team is playing well.
  • The committee has made its decision.
• Plural when acting individually:
  • The team are arguing among themselves.

Tricky Subjects

Subjects with Prepositional Phrases

• Rule: Verb agrees with subject, not object of preposition
• Examples:
  • One of the students is brilliant. (not ‘are’)
  • The quality of the products is excellent. (not ‘are’)

Subjects with Quantities

• Time/Money/Distance: Usually singular when treated as one unit
  • Ten years is a long time.
  • Fifty dollars is too much.
  • Five miles is too far to walk.

Subjects with ‘Each’, ‘Every’

• Rule: Always singular
• Examples:
  • Each student has a textbook.
  • Every person needs to register.

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Last Updated: December 2024 | Questions Updated Regularly | Aligned with IBPS Exam Pattern