Section 3: Articles, Determiners & Agreement
Master definite and indefinite articles, quantifiers, and high-yield Subject-Verb Agreement rules including proximity traps, parenthetical subjects, and collective nouns.
Articles: definite article (the)
Specific nouns, uniqueness, superlatives, proper noun exceptions, geographical names
Articles: indefinite articles (a, an)
Phonetic vowel and consonant sound rules, countable singulars, silent ‘h’ traps
Articles: omission of articles
Zero article rules before meals, languages, abstract concepts, sports, and institutions
Determiners: this, that, these, those
Spatial and temporal demonstrative determiners and singular vs plural matching
Determiners: quantifiers
Some, any, much, many, few/a few/the few, little/a little/the little
Determiners: each, every, either, neither
Distributive determiners and singular noun/verb agreement patterns
Subject-verb agreement: basic rules
Singular and plural subjects, compound subjects joined by ‘and’, inverted verbs
Subject-verb agreement: collective nouns
Unitary singular actions vs divided plural member actions (jury, committee, team)
Subject-verb agreement: either/or, neither/nor
Rule of proximity: verb agrees with the closer or nearer subject
Subject-verb agreement: a number of, the number of
‘A number of’ taking plural verbs vs ‘The number of’ taking singular verbs
Subject-verb agreement: with, as well as, along with
Parenthetical subject additions: verb strictly governed by the primary first subject
Subject-verb agreement: indefinite pronouns
Everyone, someone, nobody, anyone, each, none, either, neither
Subject-verb agreement: plural-looking singular nouns, units and titles
Subjects of study (physics), diseases, sums of money, time/distance units, book titles